CERN Courier: December 2009
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DESY marks 50 years of accelerator research
Erich Lorhmann and Paul Söding look at how the German laboratory grew from modest beginnings.
Looking back on DESY: a personal recollection
Albrecht Wagner recalls 35 years from DORIS to the European XFEL.
The continuing rise of micropattern detectors
A report on MPGD 2009, held on the Greek island of Crete.
The Nobel path to a unified electroweak theory
Celebrating anniversaries of three Nobel prizes for work that established a key element of the Standard Model.
Picturing the proton by elastic scattering
An analysis of many results suggests a three-layer model of the proton.