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Biographical note on Werner Beusch
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Biographical note on Werner Beusch
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The collection was donated to the CERN Archives by Christophe Beusch in September 2025
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Werner Beusch (1930-2024) was a Swiss physicist who worked on the OMEGA project at CERN from the end of the 1960s until 1995 up to his retirement and just before OMEGA was closed. The project was a group of physicist and engineer called the “Omega Project Working Group”. He was one of Paul Scherrer student at ETH Zürich, he obtained his PhD in 1960 to a thesis on “Two photon transitions in barium-137”. He died in 2024.