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Portrait of Gunnar Källén: A Physics Shooting Star and Poet of Early Quantum Field Theory

André Martin reviews in 2014 Portrait of Gunnar Källén: A Physics Shooting Star and Poet of Early Quantum Field Theory.

Six decades of science for peace

For CERN’s 60th anniversary, we present highlights of what the organization means for collaboration and for science.

CERN: a bridge between cultures and nations

Reflections on CERN’s influence through the decades on people and events.

Carlo Rubbia: a passion for physics and a craving for new ideas

Carlo Rubbia talks about some of the highlights of his long career and his thoughts for the future.

One Hundred Physics Visualizations Using MATLAB

The aim of this book is to have an interactive MATLAB script where the user can vary parameters in a specific problem and then immediately see the outcome by way of dynamic "movies" of the response of...

Modern Functional Quantum Field Theory: Summing Feynman Graphs

These pages offer a simple, analytic, functional approach to non-perturbative QFT, using a frequently overlooked functional representation of Fradkin to calculate explicitly relevant portions of the S...

A Brief History of String Theory: From Dual Models to M-Theory

Wolfgang Lerche reviews in 2014 A Brief History of String Theory: From Dual Models to M-Theory.

Semiconductor X-Ray Detectors

This book provides an up-to-date review of the principles, practical applications, and state-of-the-art of semiconductor X-ray detectors, and describes many of the facets of X-ray detection and measur...

Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference

The five-year interval between the international conferences covering fission and properties of neutron-rich nuclei allows for significant new results to be achieved.