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Sixty Years of Double Beta Decay: from Nuclear Physics to Beyond Standard Model Particle Physics

A useful review (62 pages) and bibliography (33 pages), with 1200 pages of reprinted papers, including pioneer neutrino papers (at the front) and extracts from CERN Courier (at the back).

Super Proton Synchrotron marks its 25th birthday

A quarter of a century ago, CERN's gleaming new Super Proton Synchrotron supplied its first proton beams. Although no longer the spearhead of CERN's research programme, the machine has become a vital ...

Chaos and Harmony, Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the 20th Century

John Swain reviews in 2001 Chaos and Harmony, Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the 20th Century.

CERN project brings science and art together

Signatures of the Invisible, an art exhibition inspired by the work being carried out at CERN, recently showed for several weeks at the Atlantis Gallery in London. The fruit of a close collaboration ...

When the bubble chamber first burst onto the scene

On 25 May 2001, Jack Steinberger, who shared the Nobel prize in 1988 and is one of CERN's stalwarts, reaches his 80th birthday. His memoirs of his early life were published in Annual Reviews of Nucle...

The Legacy of Léon Van Hove

Torleif Ericson reviews in 2001 The Legacy of Léon Van Hove.

A Modern Introduction to Particle Physics

The first edition of this book by the talented twins from Pakistan, which appeared in 1992, has been updated, with the chapters on neutrino physics, particle mixing and CP violation, and weak decay...