Read article 'EPS announces 2020 accelerator awards'
EPS announces 2020 accelerator awards
The EPS-AG prizes are awarded every three years for outstanding achievements in the accelerator field.
Read article 'EPS announces 2020 accelerator awards'
Read article 'Opening doors with a particle-physics PhD'
Opening doors with a particle-physics PhD
Transferable skills in communication, teamwork and computing make particle-physics PhDs highly sought after by industry.
Read article 'Fiction, in theory'
Fiction, in theory
French actor Irène Jacob's novel is an intimate portrait of life as the daughter of a renowned theoretical physicist, writes James Gillies.
Read article 'Rolf Widerøe: a giant in the history of accelerators'
Rolf Widerøe: a giant in the history of accelerators
Aashild Sørheim's book presents new documentary evidence on the wartime life of an engineer who had a seminal impact on accelerator physics, writes Kurt Hübner.
Read article 'A pathfinder to discovery: David Mark Ritson 1924–2019'
A pathfinder to discovery: David Mark Ritson 1924–2019
He was the last of the leaders of the original seven physics groups formed at SLAC.
Read article 'Life with antiprotons and quarks: Vladislav Šimák 1934–2019'
Life with antiprotons and quarks: Vladislav Šimák 1934–2019
Since the early 1960s his vision and organisational skills helped shape experimental particle physics in Czechoslovakia and Czechia.
Read article 'Remembering Alvin Tollestrup: 1924-2020'
Remembering Alvin Tollestrup: 1924-2020
Tollestrup was one of the world’s most influential modern physicists, writes George Zweig.
Read article '2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for cosmic perspectives'
2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for cosmic perspectives
One half of the prize was granted to James Peebles for theoretical discoveries in cosmology, while the other was shared between Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the discovery of an exoplanet orbitin...
Read article 'Spiro awarded Lagarrigue Prize'
Spiro awarded Lagarrigue Prize
Spiro contributed, among other things, to the discovery of the W and Z bosons with the UA1 experiment.
Read article 'APS announces 2020 prizes'
APS announces 2020 prizes
Pierre Sikivie won the Sakurai Prize for work recognising the potential visibility of the axion.
