Peter Jenni, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter Jenni

Swiss physicist

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1948

Place of Birth: Switzerland

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Peter Jenni, (born 17 April 1948) is an experimental particle physicist working at CERN.
He is best known as one of the "founding fathers" of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider together with a few other colleagues.
He acted as spokesperson (project leader) of the ATLAS Collaboration until 2009.
ATLAS is a world-wide collaboration which started in 1992 involving roughly 3,000 physicists at 183 institutions in 38 countries.
Jenni was directly involved in the experimental work leading to the discoveries of the W and Z bosons in the 1980s and the Higgs boson in 2012.
He is (co-)author of about 900 publications in scientific journals.