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CERN-ARCH-BEUSCH-W-04-02
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Biographical note of Jean-Pierre Blaser
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Personal residence of Werner Beusch
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The collection was donated to the CERN Archives by Christophe Beusch in September 2025
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Jean-Pierre Blaser (1923-2019) was a Swiss physicist who founded the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN) in 1968 and then became a director from 1969 to 1987. However, the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN) and Eidgenössisches Institut für Reaktorforschung (EIR) merged to create the Paul Scherrer Institute in 1988, he then became the first director of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). He also worked at the Eidgenossichen Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETHZ) as a professor of Experimental Physics from 1959 to 1990. He died in 2019.