we probe the fundamental structure of particles that make up everything around us We do so using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments Know more The Higgs Boson The W boson The Z boson The Large Hadron Collider The Birth of the web Antimatter Latest news Media News The research programme at CERN covers topics from kaons to cosmic rays and from the Standard Model to supersymmetry See all resources a small town in Baden-Württemberg close to Stuttgart His childhood was profoundly marked by the war and the death of his father on the German eastern front Despite life after the war being difficult for his family he was very successful in his academic studies and earned a fellowship at the University of Göttingen where he did his PhD in solid-state physics Werner joined CERN in 1964 as a post-doc fellow and he remained at the Organization for his entire career in experimental particle physics Concerned and eager for peace in the tense context of the cold war he was deeply involved in collaboration with Russian colleagues and participated in experiments in Serpukhov from 1968 to 1972 his work concentrated on the search for experimental evidence of the presence of quarks in hadrons He was among the main initiators of the NA3 experiment at the SPS that measured the structure functions of the pions: the results indicated a cross-section about twice as high as anticipated corresponding to QCD high-order corrections was named the “K” factor by the collaboration as recognition of Werner’s contribution Werner was appointed SPS coordinator at the beginning of the eighties and participated in the discovery of the W and Z bosons with the p-pbar collider Werner got involved in new outreach programs: in particular he was the promoter of the Microcosm in 1988 and the editor of the “Hadrons for Health” reference booklet in 1996 Werner participated in the development of the total cross-section measurement setups that initiated the TOTEM experiment at the LHC Werner was a fantastic and enthusiastic storyteller can be proud of everything he did for CERN More Social Media Accounts