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Fifty years of antiprotons

It is 50 years since Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain and their group first created an antiproton. Lynn Yarris describes their achievement at Berkeley's Bevatron in 1955.

The physics of pulsed electrical discharges, properties of coaxial lines, spark gap switches, various plasma and semiconductor switches and their use in pulse generators are covered, as well as the pr...

Foundations of Modern Cosmology (Second Edition)

The new edition of this thorough, descriptive introduction to the physical basis for modern cosmological theory includes the latest observational results and provides the background material necessary...

Quaternions, algèbre de Clifford et physique relativiste

This article (in French) reviews Quaternions, algèbre de Clifford et physique relativiste.

Meacutethodes quantiques: Champs, N-corps, diffusion

This article (in French) reviews Meacutethodes quantiques: Champs, N-corps, diffusion.

An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe

Luis Alvarez-Gaume reviews in 2005 An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe.

Fred Hoyle: pioneer in nuclear astrophysics

Fred Hoyle, who died in 2001, is best known as a cosmologist. But, as Simon Mitton relates, his career in physics began with the weak interaction and moved on to a crucial discovery in nuclear physics...

40 great years of the Rencontres de Moriond

"Theorists and experimenters must listen to each other." This leitmotif inspired the first Rencontres de Moriond in 1966, and it was just as relevant at this year's event.