Read article 'Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory'
Tian Yu Cao's book Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories, published in 1997, was hailed in many quarters as a masterpiece. The same careful thinking is evident in this book, the re...
Read article 'Historic hardware'
Article reporting the exhibition of hardware used to detect the W and Z particles in the microcosm exhibition.
Read article 'Electron–positron pioneer'
In 1960 Bruno Touschek gave a talk on electron-positron collisions that would change the face of physics. Last November, 20 years after his death, physicists gathered to celebrate Touschek's work.
Read article 'Synchrocyclotron survivor to bow out after 50 years'
After 15 years in physics, Harvard University's 160 MeV machine was converted into a cancer therapy centre. Having treated over 7500 patients in the ensuing 34 years, it is being phased out after tw...
Read article 'Twenty-five years of neutral currents'
In the summer of 1973, an experiment at the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN discovered a new physics effect. Gordon Fraser looks back at how confirmation of the existence of neutral currents ushere...
Read article '25 years of asymptotic freedom'
A quarter of a century ago, several theorists published an unexpected result which opened the door to quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the unusual field theory that describes quarks and gluons. This ye...
Read article 'Making a song and dance about physics'
Who needs the Spice Girls? What physicists want (what they really, really want) is science entertainment from Les Horribles Cernettes and the physics chanteuse Lynda Williams.
Read article 'Niels Bohr and the 20th century'
The international "Niels Bohr and the Evolution of Physics in the 20th Century" meeting earlier this year provided the opportunity to reassess the evolutional impact of Bohr's "Lebenswerk".
Read article 'SLC perched on a high'
The Stanford Linear Collider has generated its last Z particle unless the US government provides more money. But it crowned its act with a flourish.
Read article 'A hundred years ago…'
In 1895, a chance discovery by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen changed the face of science. It was the dawn of a new branch of physics the investigation of subatomic phenomena. Following the centenar...
