!!Jean-Pierre Blaser - Curriculum Vitae
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Born 25. February 1923 in Zurich (Switzerland)
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*1941 - 47	Studies at University of Zurich and ETH in chemistry, physics and 	astronomy
*1948	Diploma in natural sciences. Diploma work in solid state physics
*1948 - 52	Assistant of Prof. P. Scherrer at Physics Department of ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
*1952	Ph. D. in natural sciences of ETH*Zurich. Work on nuclear reactions and 	accelerator technology
*1952 - 55	Research associate at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, 	USA. Work in particle physics at the 440 Mev synchrocyclotron.
*1955 - 60	Director of the Neuchâtel Observatory (Switzerland). Work in position 	astronomy and new time standards based on atomic clocks
*1956	Associate professor of astrophysics at Neuchâtel University
*1960	Full professor of physics at ETH Zurich
*1962 - 72	Head ETH Institute of high energy physics. Accelerator development and experiments at CERN
*1968 - 88	Initiator and Director of a new Research institution of the Board of ETH (Annexanstalt): Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research SIN at Villigen. Development and construction of a high current 600 MeV separated sector cyclotron and experimental facilities for the "Meson factory"
*1988 - 90	Initiator and first Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, resulting from the fusion of SIN with EIR Würenlingen (Federal Institute for Reactor Research).
*1990 	Retired from directorship of PSI and professorship at ETH
*1991 - 92	Renewed teaching at ETH
*1990 - 2002	Member Science team of joint ESA/NASA project STEP on the Equivalence Principle of general relativity, chairman (until 1993) of European hardware group
*1990 - 95	Member European Study group for proton therapy of cancer
*1993 - 96	Member of ESA Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC). Initiator 	and first chairman of the Fundamental Physics Advisory Group of ESA
*1996 - 98	Vice*chair of COSPAR (International Committe on Space Research) Scientific Commission H (fundamental physics)
*1999 - 2000	Consultant to Biotechnology firm CYTOS, Zürich
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__Special functions held at some time__
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* Scientific delegate of Switzerland in CERN Council
* Member of Scientific Policy Commitee of CERN
* President of the Swiss Physical Society
* Head of Physics Department ETH
* Dean of Mathematics and Physics at ETH
* President of Scientific Commission of Watch Industry Research Laboratory
* Member of Board of NAC (National Accelerator Center) of Foundation for Research  and Development, Republic of South Africa
* Member of various commissions in Switzerland
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__Honours__
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*Dr. honoris causa University of Lausanne
*Dr. honoris causa University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
*Dr. honoris causa University of Geneva
*Dr. honoris causa University of Neuchâtel
*Dr. honoris causa University of Zurich
*Honorary member of Physical Society Zurich 
*Honorary member of the Swiss Physical Society
*Member at large Austrian Academy of Sciences
*Foreign Associate of the Royal Society of South Africa
*Member of Academia Europaea
*Cancer Award of the Swiss Cancer League
*Prize of European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)