Read article 'Rolf Widerøe: a giant in the history of accelerators'
Aashild Sørheim's book presents new documentary evidence on the wartime life of an engineer who had a seminal impact on accelerator physics, writes Kurt Hübner.
Read article 'Einstein and Heisenberg: The Controversy over Quantum Physics'
Peter Jenni reviews Konrad Kleinknecht's new book on the interwoven stories of two giants of twentieth century physics.
Read article 'Vladislav Šimák 1934–2019'
Since the early 1960s his vision and organisational skills helped shape experimental particle physics in Czechoslovakia and Czechia.
Read article '50 years of the GIM mechanism'
A symposium to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Glashow, Iliopoulos and Maiani's explanation of the suppression of strangeness-changing neutral currents was held in Shanghai.
Read article 'CERN’s proton synchrotron turns 60'
A colloquium was held at CERN on 25 November 2019.
Read article 'Maxwell’s enduring legacy'
Malcom Longair has written a monumental account of the Cavendish Laboratory.
Read article 'ATLAS – A 25 Year Insider Story of the LHC Experiment'
117 authors collaborated to write on diverse aspects of the ATLAS project.
Read article 'The Weil conjectures'
Karen Olsson's book tours the lives of Simone Weil and her brother, the noted mathematician André Weil.
Read article 'Austria and CERN celebrate 60 years'
Associated in bygone days with the UA1 and DELPHI, today hundreds of Austrian scientists contribute to CERN’s experimental programme.
Read article 'The rise of French particle physics'
Founded 80 years ago, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is one of Europe’s largest research institutions.
