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Tejinder Virdee Biography

Tejinder Virdee is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on October 13, 1952 in Nyeri, Nyeri, Kenya.

Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS (born 13 October 1952), is an experimental particle physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London.

He is best known for originating the concept of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) with a few other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the ‘founding fathers’ of the project.

Tejinder virdee biography of barack

CMS is a world-wide collaboration which started in 1991 and now has over 3500 participants from 45 countries.

After completing his Ph.D. at Imperial College London, on an experiment conducted at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, he joined CERN in 1979 as a Fellow of the Experimental Physics Division.

Virdee’s early scientific career (1979-1984) involved verifying the strange notion that the “quarks” (the constituents of the protons the neutrons and all other hadro