Read article 'Giovanni Muratori 1924–2019'
Giovanni Muratori 1924–2019
A superb engineer who was respected, innovative and ingenious.
Read article 'Giovanni Muratori 1924–2019'
Read article 'Ernst-Wilhelm Otten 1934–2019'
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.
Read article 'Spiro appointed IUPAP president'
Spiro appointed IUPAP president
The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics aims to stimulate and promote international cooperation in physics.
Read article 'Breakthrough Prize for black-hole image'
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.
Read article 'Flying high after the Higgs'
Flying high after the Higgs
Eleni Mountricha told the Courier about the evolution of her career from Higgs hunting to data science.
Read article 'Giorgi and Nakada share Fermi Prize'
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.
Read article 'Gaurang Bhaskar Yodh 1928–2019'
Gaurang Bhaskar Yodh 1928–2019
Yodh was a passionate particle and cosmic-ray physicist and renowned sitar player.
Read article 'Jacques Soffer 1940–2019'
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.
Read article 'Anton Oed 1933–2018'
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.
Read article 'Black-hole snap scoops 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics'
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.
