Inaugural Lecture in the John Adams Memorial Lecture Series: John Adams and his times

The John Adams' Memorial Lecture will be an annual event which in futur years will provide young and promising accelerator engineers and physicists with an opportunity to expose their work in the accelerator field. The inaugural lecture will put the many very important contribution of John Adams into perspective, not only with respect to CERN, but also with respect to the development of high energy physics in the world.