Born on July 13, 1942 in Cairo, Egypt of Karpathian parents
Physicist Director of Research at the National Centrer for Scientific Research, CNRS, France
CPPM, 163 avenue de Luminy - Case 902 - 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France
CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211, Genève 23, Switzerland
1965 Degree in Physics, Berlin Academy of Sciences, Rossendorf
1967 Attaché de Recherche, CNRS
1970 Doctorat d’Etat in Physical Sciences (Nuclear Physics)
Chargé de Recherche, CNRS
1978 Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
1965 – 1984 Centre for Nuclear Research, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
1970 – 1973 Research Associate, Columbia University, Nevis Labs, Irvington, N. Y.
1972 – 1974 Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, L. I., N. Y.
1984 – Director of Research at the Centre for Particle Physics, Marseille
1990 – 1992 Scientific Associate, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva
1996 – 2003 Director of the Centre for Particle Physics, Marseille
1998 – 2002 Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille
Research interests
Particle and Astroparticle Physics
Fundamental symmetries
Matter-Antimatter asymmetry in the Universe
Member of several French and international Scientific and Advisory Committees, University Boards, international Collaborations Boards, the French and European Physical Society.
Experimental Research Fields
Muon interactions with Nuclei and Electron-Muon Universality (BNL, Nevis Labs, N.Y.)
Quark degrees of freedom, coherent meson production, search for hyper and anti-photonic nuclei, anti-proton interactions with nuclei (SATURNE, Paris and CERN, Geneva)
Neutrino oscillations (Nuclear Plant BUGEY); Search for high energy cosmic neutrinos with a deep under-seas telescope (ANTARES)
Study of the violation of discrete symmetries in strange and beauty particle decays (Low Energy Antiproton Ring, LEAR and Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Geneva)
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