What is Vinod Chohan?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Vinod Chohan |image = Vinod Chohan.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1949|05|01|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Dar es Salaam]], [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika]] |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2017|6|12|1949|05|01}} |death_place = [[Geneva]], [[Switzerland]] |thesis_url = http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1398718~S5 |field = [[Engineering]] |work_institutions = [[CERN]] }} '''Vinod Chandrasinh Chohan''' (1 May 1949 &ndash; 12 June 2017) <ref>{{cite journal|title=Avis de décès|journal=Tribune de Genève|date=19 June 2017|url=http://www.hommages.ch/Defunt/107421/Vinod%20Chandrasinh_Chohan|access-date=30 June 2017|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924070629/http://www.hommages.ch/Defunt/107421/Vinod%20Chandrasinh_Chohan|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a [[Tanzania]]n-born [[Particle accelerator|accelerator]] specialist and engineer. He was a Senior Staff Member at [[CERN]] for nearly 40 years. He held a leading position at CERN's [[Antiproton Accumulator]], a machine that was part of the infrastructure connected to the [[UA1]] and [[UA2]] experiments, where the [[W and Z bosons]] where discovered in 1983. [[Carlo Rubbia]] and [[Simon van der Meer]] received the 1984 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for this discovery. Chohan worked closely with the latter on the [[Antiproton Accumulator]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Chohan|first1=Vinod|last2=Van der Meer|first2=Simon|title=Aspects of automation and applications in the CERN antiproton source|journal=Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res.|date=August 1990|volume=293|issue=1–2|pages=98–102|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002%2890%2991408-4|doi=10.1016/0168-9002(90)91408-4|bibcode=1990NIMPA.293...98C}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chohan, Vinod}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Physicists]] [[Category:Tanzanian scientists]] [[Category:People from Dar es Salaam]] {{bio-stub}}