Above: Prof. Sir Adrian Smith FRS, the President of the Royal Society, with Tejinder. Photograph by the Royal Society
Professor Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee FRS awarded the 2024 Royal Medal of the Royal Society
Tejinder ‘Jim’ Virdee, from Imperial College London, has been awarded Royal Society’s Royal Medal for “extraordinary leadership and profound impact on all phases of the monumental CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, including the crucial discovery of the Higgs boson through its decays to two photons”.
Three Royal Medals are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.
Tejinder said: “It is an immense honour and privilege to receive the Royal Medal and be associated with an advance in science, namely the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments. I believe that the Medal not only celebrates fundamental science but also recognizes the audacious undertaking of the many scientists, engineers and technicians from around the world, who, over several decades have come together to build and operate the powerful experiment that is CMS.”
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Professor Sir Virdee's knighthood in 2014