Citation | Brian Foster is an experimental particle physicist of vision and power. He has made contributions to many areas of electron-positron and elelctron-proton scattering but his major contribution has been to the study of the heavy quarks and leptons. He clearly saw that progress in this field depended on the construction and optimisation of novel high precision detectors with their associated electronics and data acquisition. This he set out to do with great success. He was principal author of papers from the TASSO experiment on the bottom quark and tau lepton lifetimes and a large contributor to the paper on charm quark lifetime, this was the beginning of his lifelong devotion to the understanding of heavy leptons adn quarks. He is currently the spokesman of the large ZEUS collaboration working at DESY in Hamburg. As such he is responsible for all aspects of the experiment and in particular the scientific output. Under his leadership the collaboration has recently upgraded the detector in order to be able to study efficiently the heavy quark system, his particular interest. Throughout his career he has been committed to the dissemination of his research work to a wider public and has written widely in newspapers and magazines. |