16 Facts About Peter Jenni

Peter Jenni, was born on 17 April 1948 and is an experimental particle physicist working at CERN.

Peter Jenni is best known as one of the "founding fathers" of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider together with a few other colleagues.

Peter Jenni acted as spokesperson of the ATLAS Collaboration until 2009.

Peter Jenni is author of about 1000 publications in scientific journals.

Peter Jenni, Swiss, born in 1948, obtained his Diploma for Physics at the University of Bern in 1973 and his Doctorate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1976.

Peter Jenni's thesis examined very small angle elastic scattering in the Coulomb-nuclear interference region.

Peter Jenni participated in CERN experiments at the Synchro-Cyclotron, at the Proton Synchrotron, and as ETHZ Research Associate at the Intersecting Storage Rings, the first high-energy hadron collider.

Peter Jenni became a CERN staff member in 1980 working with the UA2 experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron collider.

Peter Jenni was re-elected several times and retired from this duty in February 2009, with Fabiola Gianotti as his successor.

Peter Jenni retained however a strong involvement in the operation and physics of the experiment.

Peter Jenni is an Honorary Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China.

Peter Jenni has authored and co-authored many review articles about the LHC project, the Higgs boson discovery, and the history of hadron colliders, for example in 2021 in the CERN Courier.

Peter Jenni is frequently invited to give public lectures on experimental particle physics at the LHC.

Peter Jenni is well known for his efforts to involve physicists from countries that are not CERN member states in the construction of the ATLAS experiment.

Peter Jenni often says that the biggest reward for him is to see how enthusiastic and motivated young people are about physics and he constantly tries to help future generations to get the same or even more opportunities in high energy physics.

Peter Jenni is a founding member of the CERN and Society Foundation, an independent non-profit organization to support and promote the dissemination of the benefits of CERN through education and outreach, innovation and knowledge exchange, and culture and art.