Werner Joho

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Werner Joho, a Swiss physicist affiliated with the Division Large Research Facilities of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland, before 1988 the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Physic (SIN). He received a Ph.D. in 1970 from ETH Zurich on the extraction of a 590 MeV proton beam from the SIN ring cyclotron , and was involved in developing of the Swiss Light Source.

=Charly= In 1967/68, as Ph.D. student at ETH, along with Gerald Tripard and Gerhard Rudolf, Werner Joho was co-developer of the chess program Charly ("Chess heuristics and algorithms for relaxing lazy yodelers") running on a CDC 1604. While the computer was basically used for calculations to design magnets for the cyclotron, they used some extra weekend computer time for their work on chess. In 1968, they asked Richard Greenblatt for a match versus Mac Hack VI. Three games were played in October and November 1968 via ham radio, all won by Mac Hack VI.

=Selected Publications=

1970 ...

 * Werner Joho (1970). Extraction of a 590 MeV Proton Beam from the SIN Ringcyclotron. Ph.D. thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, abstract as pdf
 * Werner Joho (1984). Introduction to computing for accelerator operation. Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 215, Springer

2000 ...

 * Werner Joho (2003, 2011). Fun with Formulas. Paul Scherrer Institute
 * Werner Joho, Marc Munoz, Andreas Streun (2006). The SLS booster synchrotron. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

2010 ...

 * Werner Joho (2011). The Cyclotron Facilities at PSI, an overview. Paul Scherrer Institute
 * Werner Joho (2015). Zaubereien mit Zahlen. GFA-Party 2015 (German)
 * Werner Joho (2018). Winning Bets with Math. Books on Demand
 * Werner Joho (2019). The Accelerator Facilities at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. Books on Demand

=External Links=
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Werner Joho
 * Superbends expand the scope of Berkeley's ALS - CERN Courier, February 25, 2002
 * Computer chess via ham radio by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * July 1, 2010 letter from Dr. Gerald Tripard, hosted by Lawrence J. Krakauer

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