In recognition of outstanding contributions to the development of ECR (Electron Cyclotron Resonance) ion sources and to encourage promising young scientists, PANTECHNIK - the world leader in commercial ECR ion sources - awards the “Richard Geller PRIZE” on the occasion of ECRIS workshops. This prize will be awarded for the first time during the 18th workshop at Chicago (ECRIS2008 ). An ad-hoc Geller Prize Award Committee will choose the winner of the “Richard Geller PRIZE”. Nominations of candidates (who will be under 41 years of age on December 31, 2008), including less than one page description of the nominees research work, should be submitted to the committee chair, Dr. Hongwei Zhao ( This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ) by July 1, 2008.

Award: Diploma and 4,000 Euro

Richard Geller with Self-portrait

Richard GELLER  - extracted from "2001 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics" recipient background. 

Richard Geller was born in 1927. He received his undergraduate degree from the Conservatoires des Arts et Metiers, Paris and his Doctorat en Sciences, under Prof. F. Perrin from Sorbonne University, Paris (1954). He was hired in 1948 by F. Joliot Curie at Commisariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) and remained with CEA except for 1961-1962, when he worked as a research Associate at Stanford University, where he developed the first "Bumpy Torus Plasma".

Back in France he built several plasma devices based on electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) and he also taught a graduate course of controlled fusion.

Throughout the 1970's and 1980's he elaborated with his Grenoble group the prototypes of ECR Ion Sources (ECRIS) for highly charge gaseous and metallic ions, and advocated their utilization for new accelerator projects as well as for the existing cyclotrons, linacs and synchotrons... until their adoption for nuclear and particle physics and for hadrontherapy. After retirement from CEA (1992), he joined the Institut des Sciences Nucleaires, Grenoble (today the Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie - LPSC ), where he successfully developed a new ECR method called 1+ -> n+ which is a charge booster of radioactive ions of very short life times for ISOL-based systems. He also promoted a new high capacity ECR ion accumulator for pulsed machines. He had over 200 scientific publications including his book " ECR Ion Sources and ECR Plasmas " which provides a primer on these phenomena and their scaling laws. 

www.richard-geller.org website 

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