Tejinder Virdee

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tejinder Virdee
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Oct 13, 1952(1952-10-13)
Age	72
Birthplace	Nyeri
Country	Kenya
Birth City	Nyeri
Horoscope	Libra

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. 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 hadrons) carry fractional electric charge. This was successfully demonstrated by the NA14 photoproduction experiment at CERN in the mid-eighties. Following NA14 he joined the UA1 experiment at CERN’s proton-antiproton collider (SPS) where his interest in high-performance calorimetry was developed, leading to his invention of a novel technique of collecting light in plastic scintillator-based calorimeters.

Tejinder Virdee Net Worth

Tejinder Virdee is one of the richest Physicist from Kenya. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tejinder Virdee 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tejinder Virdee was born in 1952 to Udham Kaur and Chain Singh Virdee in Nyeri, Kenya. Virdee went to school in Kisumu at the Kisumu Boys High School. Due to the prevailing circumstances in Kenya at the time, his family (of Indian Sikh origin) emigrated in 1967 to Birmingham, England. He credits part of his interest in physics to Howard Stockley, his physics teacher at King’s Norton Boys’ School, Birmingham, whom he describes as an ‘inspirational teacher’. He also remembers visiting Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry, where he stumbled across a cloud chamber sparking his interest in the study of the structure of matter. Virdee obtained a B.Sc. in Physics from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1974.

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Virdee was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2012. In recognition of his work on CMS he has been awarded the IOP High Energy Particle Physics group prize (2007) and the IOP Chadwick Medal and Prize (2009). In 2012, he was awarded the 2013 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for ‘leadership in the scientific endeavour that led to the discovery of the new Higgs-like particle by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) along with 6 other physicists. He was awarded the 2013 European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize and the 2017 American Physical Society Panofsky Prize for his pioneering work and outstanding leadership in the making of the CMS experiment.

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Teresa Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kenya. Tejinder Virdee celebrates birthday on October 13 of every year.