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How US physicists first came to work at CERN

After help from an eminent US figure, CERN was founded in the 1950s to provide a European stage for physics. Once the curtain was up, US physicists found the new laboratory increasingly attractive. In...

Forty years of research on the structure of matter

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Michael Riordan takes a look at its achievements and current research.

Les neutrinos vont-ils au paradis? [Do Neutrinos Go to Heaven?]

Georges Charpak reviews in 2002 Les neutrinos vont-ils au paradis? [Do Neutrinos Go to Heaven?].

Great Physicists: the Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

Gordon Fraser reviews in 2002 Great Physicists: the Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking.

It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science

John March-Russell reviews in 2002 It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science.

Accelerator tradition is thriving at Brookhaven

When the Brookhaven National Laboratory was established in 1947 at Long Island’s Camp Upton, it inherited barracks, recreational facilities and a stockade for prisoners of war. Today the barracks re...

Forward Physics and Luminosity Determination at the LHC

These are the proceedings of a workshop held in Helsinki, in 2000, which covered both theoretical and experimental aspects of the topic.

Nucleus – a Trip into the Heart of Matter

The keynote is the book's nuclear physics standpoint. Fundamental particles and their constituent quarks and gluons are only mentioned in passing, but this is no obstacle.