People Archives – CERN Courier

20 years since coining the string-theory "landscape", Leonard Susskind describes the emerging connections between quantum mechanics and gravity.

A pioneering experimentalist in top-quark physics, Meenakshi Narain was also a powerful voice for women and minorities in science.

Theoretical physicist Lars Brink served on the Nobel Committee for physics for many years.

Former LHC experimentalists discuss their experiences, good and bad, upon transitioning to the diverse employment world outside particle physics.

Fields medallist Maryna Viazovska explains sphere-packing, its applications to physics, and the relationship between mathematics and reality.

CERN alumni working in Google, Microsoft and other big-tech firms offer advice on how to promote your assets when seeking to move out of academia.

Volker Soergel headed DESY in 1981–1993, overseeing construction of the HERA electron–proton storage ring.

Nicola was a leading authority on the use of mathematics in high-energy theoretical physics.

Rubakov pioneered groundbreaking ideas and methods in many domains of particle physics and cosmology.

Well known for his work the foundations of quantum mechanics, Gottfried was also co-founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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