René Turlay

René Turlay (* 1932 † 29 November 2002) was a French physicist who dealt with experimental particle physics and is known as one of the participants in the experiment for the discovery of CP violation.

Turlay was from 1957 at the Nuclear Research Center of CEA in Saclay, where he studied at Saturne synchrotron Pi Mesonenproduktion in nucleon -nucleon scattering at 2.3 GeV. That was also the subject of his dissertation. As a post - graduate student, he was in 1962 at Princeton University. 1962 to 1964 he participated in the experiment by James Cronin, Val Fitch and James Christenson at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in which the CP violation was discovered in the decay of neutral K- mesons. Cronin and Fitch received the Nobel Prize for it in 1980.

Turlay continued his experiments on the K -meson system at Saclay and CERN. From 1973 he was involved in the CHDS collaboration at the Super Proton Synchrotron on the interaction of high-energy neutrinos. He worked with Jack Steinberger. He was also the ALEPH detector LEP involved (whose roots lay in the CHDS ). He was later the Executive Board ( Chairman ) of the LEP Committee.

He later worked with Fitch (via mesons with charm at Fermilab ) and Cronin and Bruce Winstein together ( direct measurement of CP violation ).

1978 to 1979, he led a study group for the planned Hera ring at DESY.

In 1984 he became head of the Physics in Saclay and headed its extension to DAPNIA department, which included astrophysics and nuclear physics. After his retirement in Saclay he was involved in the NA48 collaboration at CERN, where, among other things, the direct CP violation was observed (1999).

In 1981 he received the Holweck price. He was a knight of the Legion of Honour.