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Tejinder Virdee Quotes

born 1952 Kenya

Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS (born October 13, 1952) is an experimental physicist and Professor of Physicsat Imperial College London. He is best known for originating the concept of Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) with a few other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the 'founding fathers' of the project.

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Our judge is not God or governments, but Nature.

View of the CMS endcap through the barrel sections.

The Higgs is a very special type of particle - one we've never seen before. It has strange properties that we need to understand. This award was a complete surprise to me. It's really quite humbling and of course I'm delighted to receive it. I'm over the moon to be frank.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tejinder Virdee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.