Read article 'LHCb hosts Guido Altarelli awards'
Pier Francesco Monni and Philip Ilten were recognised for their exceptional contributions to the theoretical and experimental aspects of deep inelastic scattering.
Read article 'EPS announces 2020 accelerator awards'
The EPS-AG prizes are awarded every three years for outstanding achievements in the accelerator field.
Read article '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'
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'
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 'David Mark Ritson 1924–2019'
He was the last of the leaders of the original seven physics groups formed at SLAC.
Read article 'Vladislav Šimák 1934–2019'
Since the early 1960s his vision and organisational skills helped shape experimental particle physics in Czechoslovakia and Czechia.
Read article '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'
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 contributed, among other things, to the discovery of the W and Z bosons with the UA1 experiment.
