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15.11.2012
DPG awards Max Born Prize to Max Klein
The German Physical Society (DPG) awards the Max Born Prize to Professor Max Klein for his fundamental experimental contributions to reveal the structure of the proton through deep inelastic scattering.
Max Klein
In the past 40 years, Max Klein particularly concentrated on the investigation of the inner structure of the proton. In the 1990s, he played a decisive role in the discovery of a surprisingly large gluon component, an element of the proton. The gluons are important in the generation of Higgs bosons; a promising candidate of these particles was recently detected at CERN.
After first experiments in Dubna, already in the 1980s Klein joined experiments at DESY in Hamburg and CERN. Since 1985, he is a member of the H1 collaboration at DESY’s storage ring HERA. From 2002 to 2006, Klein was head of the H1 collaboration and he guided the project into a new era of precision measurements of the proton structure and tests of the elementary particle physics standard model. Since 2006, Klein works in England and is Chair for Particle Physics of the University of Liverpool. During his whole career, Klein was a tireless forerunner in the field of lepton-nucleon scattering. Still today, he plays a leading international role in the planning of a next generation scattering experiment.
Source: DPG information
