Read article 'Chen-Ning Yang 1922–2025'
Chen-Ning Yang 1922–2025
Chen-Ning Yang, a towering figure in science who shaped contemporary theoretical physics, passed away on 18 October 2025.
Read article 'Chen-Ning Yang 1922–2025'
Read article 'George Smoot 1945–2025'
George Smoot 1945–2025
George Smoot, who led the team that first measured tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, passed away on 18 September 2025.
Read article 'Rohini Godbole 1952–2024'
Rohini Godbole 1952–2024
Rohini Madhusudan Godbole, one of India’s most influential particle physicists, passed away on 25 October 2024.
Read article 'How I learnt to stop worrying and love QCD predictions'
How I learnt to stop worrying and love QCD predictions
Muon g-2 Theory Initiative chair Aida El-Khadra discusses conflicting datasets, disparate calculations and hot competition between research groups.
Read article 'Hendrik Verweij 1931–2025'
Hendrik Verweij 1931–2025
Hendrik Verweij, who was for many years a driving force in the development of electronics for high-energy physics, passed away on 11 August 2025.
Read article 'The future of particle therapy'
The future of particle therapy
PTCOG president Marco Durante describes an exciting future for the technology and shares his vision for closer international cooperation between medicine, academia and industry.
Read article 'Polymath, humanitarian, gentleman'
Polymath, humanitarian, gentleman
Herwig Schopper, Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, passed away on 19 August at the age of 101.
Read article 'The physicist who fought war and cancer'
The physicist who fought war and cancer
Subatomic physics has shaped both the conduct of war and the treatment of cancer. Joseph Rotblat, who left the Manhattan Project on moral grounds and later advanced radiotherapy, embodies this dual le...
Read article 'Prepped for re-entry'
Prepped for re-entry
When Francesca Luoni logs on each morning at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, she’s thinking about something few of us ever consider: how to keep astronauts safe from the invisible haza...
Read article 'John Peoples 1933–2025'
John Peoples 1933–2025
John Peoples, the third director of Fermilab, who guided the lab through one of the most critical periods in its history, passed away on 25 June 2025.
