NIMB Editorial for 2008

✍ Scribed by Hans Henrik Andersen; Mark Breese; Lynn Rehn; Christina Trautmann; Ian Vickridge

• Book ID: 103862598
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 56 KB
• Volume: 266
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-583X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2007.11.032

✦ Synopsis

We begin this year's Editorial on a sad, though sincerely grateful, note. Kai Siegbahn, Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1981) and Founding Editor of NIMA and B, died on July 20, 2007 at the age of 89. We note that the achievement for which he received his Prize is central to the scope of NIMB. At that time the technique he invented was called ESCA (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis); today it is more commonly referred to as XPS (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy). Kai was the Founding Editor of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in 1957, and he orchestrated its split into NIMA and NIMB in 1983. After receiving a comment from one (HHA) of us that NIM was catering to two somewhat disparate communities, connected only through the use of accelerators, i.e., the nuclear/particle physicists and the atomic/solid-state/ materials scientists, Kai persuaded the publisher, North-Holland, to split NIM into two sections. HHA and Tom Picraux served as the first two Editors of NIMB. Kai was enormously supportive well beyond the starting phase of NIMB and