Francesco Ruggiero b. August 1957 in Italy, d. January 2007 in Switzerland, in chronological order. participated in the comssionning of LEP, contributed the LHC

Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature....

 design, became the leader of the accelerator group in CERN

CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...

 and finally coordinated the CARE-HHH framework devoted to the LHC upgrade studies (or Super Large Hadron Collider

Super Large Hadron Collider

The Super Large Hadron Collider is a proposed upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider to be made after around ten years of operation...

). For a large period he also was associate editor of the prestigious Physical Review ST-AB journal.

A memorial Symposium dedicated to Francesco took place at CERN on the 3rd of October 2007.http://care-hhh.web.cern.ch/CARE-HHH/BEAM07/default.html

External links

• His personal web page at CERN
• CERN Bulletin article
• Presentations made at 2007 CERN symposium, containing comprehensive summaries of Francesco's contributions to science
• Physical Review ST-AB announcement, Ruggiero (associate editor) passed away
• PDF presentation of LHC upgrade by Ruggiero
• Conference organized by Ruggiero