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Born into a Sikh family in the foothills of the mountains of Nyeri in Kenya on October 13, , Virdee was 15 when he came to England with his....
Tejinder Virdee
British physicist
Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS (Punjabi: ਤਜਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿਰਦੀ, born 13 October 1952), is a Kenyan-born British experimental particle physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London.[1] He is best known for originating the concept of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) with a few other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the 'founding fathers' [2] of the project.
CMS is a world-wide collaboration which started in 1991 and now has over 3500 participants from 50 countries.
In recognition of his work on CMS, Virdee has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions. In 2007, he was awarded the IOP High Energy Particle Physics group prize[3] and in 2009 the IOP Chadwick Medal and Prize.[4] In 2012 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society[5] and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP).[6] In 2013 he was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Phys