James V Allaby

James V Allaby (1936–2009) was an experimental physicists.

Allaby came to CERN in 1965 and joined the group of Giuseppe Cocconi, Bert Diddens and Alan Wetherell, who were preparing proton–proton scattering experiments in a slowly extracted proton beam at the highest PS energies.

At the end of the 1970s he became one of the founding fathers of the DELPHI experiment.

Allaby was nominated division leader for the Particle Physics Experiment division (PPE) when Carlo Rubbia was director-general, and in this role continued his strong support for the programme at the Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider. He was also put in charge of relations with CERN’s non-member states.

For more information see, CERN Courier Volume 49, Number 6, July-August 2009, p. 50.