Lorenzo Resegotti (1928-2013)

Lorenzo (Renzo) Resegotti (1928), staff scientist at CERN from 1954 to 1988, passed away on 23 May 2013.

Among his many activities in the field of accelerator magnets, Renzo is best remembered for having had the strategic foresight to develop a superconducting magnet system that was demonstrably reliable enough for installation in a working accelerator.

The superconducting low beta insertion was installed in the ISR at interaction point 8, enabling the 4π Axial Field Spectrometer to collect data at an unprecedented rate. The scientists and engineers who were trained on this project formed the core team that developed the successful LHC magnet and cryogenic systems. Renzo outlived his devoted wife Katy by two years. They had no children.

His friends and colleagues

A full obituary will be published in the October edition of the CERN Courier.