Read article 'A lifetime in biophysics'
Shake hands with Eleanor Blakely and you are only one handshake away from John Lawrence – a pioneer of nuclear medicine and brother of Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel-prize-winning inventor of the...
Read article 'OECD report praises innovation at CERN'
In early June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published their Global Science Forum (GSF) report, “The Impacts of Large Research Infrastructures on Economic Inn...
Read article 'A network for life'
The Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER) was established in 2008 to train young biologists, engineers, radio-oncologists and physicists in the various aspects of hadron...
Read article 'ICTR-PHE: uniting physics, medicine and biology'
Résumé ICTR-PHE : unir la physique, la médecine et la biologie La conférence ICTR-PHE 2014 a réuni à Genève quelque 400 participants du monde entier venus discu...
Read article 'Advanced radiation detectors in industry'
The European Physical Society’s Technology and Innovation Group (EPS-TIG) was set up in 2011 to work at the boundary between basic and applied sciences, with annual workshops organized in col...
Read article 'Accelerating innovation'
Last year, the Executive Committee of the European Physical Society (EPS) decided to revive the EPS Technology and Innovation Group (TIG) by launching a workshop to take stock of projected R&am...
Read article 'ENLIGHT: catalysing hadron therapy in Europe'
Résumé ENLIGHT : catalyseur de la thérapie hadronique en Europe Il y a dix ans, en février 2002, ENLIGHT, le Réseau européen de recherche sur la thérapie hadron...
Read article 'Hadron therapy: collaborating for the future'
In 1946, accelerator pioneer Robert Wilson laid the foundation for hadron therapy with his article in Radiology about the therapeutic interest of protons for treating cancer (CERN Courier December 200...
Read article 'Head-to-head technology transfer for hadron therapy'
Résumé MedAustron : un projet de coopération inédit MedAustron, le projet autrichien d’hadronthérapie, est l’aboutissement d’un long travail dans lequel le C...
Read article 'Carbon-ion radiotherapy flourishes in Japan'
Résumé L’hadronthérapie par ions carbone en pleine expansion au Japon Avec un premier patient traité en 1994, le Japon s’est imposé comme précurseur dans l...
