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Physicist of Punjabi family origin to be accorded knighthood by England’s queen

June 15, 2014 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau

London (June 14, 2014): An Punjabi physicist, known for his work on the Large Hadron Collider experiment, has been accorded an honorary knighthood by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II for his achievements in science.

According to certain media reports, Tejinder Virdee, of Imperial College in London, was named a Knight Bachelor for his services to science in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, released here yesterday evening.

Tejinder Virdee, son of Udham Kaur and Chain Singh Virdee, was born in Kenya in 1952. Due to the prevailing circumstances in Kenya at the time, his Sikh family Indian by origin, left in 1967 and moved to Birmingham, England.

His citation reads, “Professor Virdee is one of the UK’s most distinguished physicists and, as one of the creators of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment he has made outstanding contributions to science”.

“The CMS experiment, at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, has delivered seminal results in particle physics, including the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs Boson, or the God particle, a particle that gives mass to other particles”.

“Beyond his innovative work in particle physics, he is also a great campaigner for science, and promoter of science and education in Africa and India,” the citation says.

Virdee, 61, developed new technologies within the detector that ultimately allowed it to find the Higgs ? the mechanism which explains how sub-atomic particles came to have substance, or mass.

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