Jean Cleymans A Life for Physics

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague, Professor Jean Cleymans, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who unexpectedly passed away on the 22nd of February 2021. We were, and still are, shocked. Professor Cleymans was known as an active person, a great organizer, and a brilliant collaborator, always ready to help. This is a big loss for science; he made fundamental contributions to our understanding of particle production in high-energy physics, new matter formation in heavy ion collisions, theoretical and experimental studies of quantum chromodynamics, and statistical approaches in particle physics, such as the statistical thermal model and non-extensivity, on which he was a leading figure.

His participation in the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, and in the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, was of high importance and lent the results a great visibility and world-wide recognition. Prof. Cleymans conceived, planned, organized, and was successfully leading the South Africa–CERN Program within the UCT-CERN Research Centre in the University of Cape Town.

We are honored to organize this Special Issue, which is a call for contributions mixed with personal experiences, scientific studies, and reviews—a real tribute to the contribution of Professor Cleymans to high-energy physics.

Prof. Dr. Raghunath Sahoo
Prof. Dr. Dinesh Srivastava
Prof. Dr. Edward Sarkisyan-Grinbaum
Prof. Dr. Airton Deppman
Guest Editors

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