Breadth and eminence across disciplines: Ernst-Wilhelm Otten 1934–2019
In the 1980s Otten used tritium decays to rebut a 30 eV measurement of the mass of the antineutrino, and initiated the KATRIN experiment.
Spiro appointed IUPAP president
The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics aims to stimulate and promote international cooperation in physics.
Breakthrough Prize for black-hole image
The $3 million prize will be shared the co-authors of the six papers published by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration.
Flying high after the Higgs
Eleni Mountricha told the Courier about the evolution of her career from Higgs hunting to data science.
Giorgi and Nakada share Fermi Prize
The pair were awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize for their outstanding contributions to the experimental evidence of CP violation in the heavy-quark sector.
From the ground to the skies: Gaurang Bhaskar Yodh 1928–2019
Yodh was a passionate particle and cosmic-ray physicist and renowned sitar player.
Prolific theorist and polarisation pioneer: Jacques Soffer 1940–2019
Jacques Soffer was a prolific theorist and phenomenologist who played a big part in persuading the elementary particle community of the importance of polarisation-type measurements.
An inspirational inventor: Anton Oed 1933–2018
Anton Oed was a passionate inventor whose introduction of micro-strip gas chambers at the Institut Laue-Langevin in 1988 was a decisive breakthrough in the field of radiation detectors.
Black-hole snap scoops 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The $3 million prize will be shared equally between 347 researchers who were co-authors of the six papers published by the EHT collaboration on 10 April.
ICTP announces next director
Atish Dabholkar succeeds Fernando Quevedo.
