People and thing. CERN Courier, Apr 1989, v. 29(3)

The article reports on achievements of various people, staff changes and position opportunities within the CERN organization and contains news updates on upcoming or past events. Lake Shore Cryotronics of Ohio has been granted exclusive rights to market a technique developed at Los Alamos for measuring the quality of new high temperature superconductors. Home to the world's largest single application of superconductivity - the four-mile Tevatron ring - Fermilab has been granted a patent for a new cryogenic support system developed at the Laboratory providing high structural strength with excellent thermal properties. Hadron 89, the Third International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, to take place in Ajaccio, Corsica, France, from 23-27 September, will cover the important developments since Hadron 87 (KEK Japan) and look to the future