Read article 'Massimo Tarenghi: a lifetime in the stars'
Massimo Tarenghi fell in love with astronomy at age 14, when his mother took away his stamp collection – on which he spent more time than on his schoolbooks – and gave him a book entitled L...
Read article 'Seeing is believing'
Lucio Rossi on the beauty that correlates particles and light.
Read article 'Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson'
As a tribute to Freeman Dyson on the occasion of his 90th birthday, and to celebrate his lifelong contributions in physics, mathematics, astronomy, nuclear engineering and global warming, a conference...
Read article 'Emilio Picasso’s contagious enthusiasm for physics'
A tribute to his many contributions to physics, especially at CERN.
Read article 'CERN Council selects next director-general'
At its 173rd closed session on 4 November, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti as the organization’s next director-general.
Read article 'Half a century of Bell’s theorem'
Physicists gathered at the university of Vienna to mark 50 years of John Bell's theorem.
Read article 'A lifetime in biophysics'
Shake hands with Eleanor Blakely and you are only one handshake away from John Lawrence – a pioneer of nuclear medicine and brother of Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel-prize-winning inventor of the...
Read article 'Jim Yeck: a life in big infrastructures'
The person in charge of constructing the ESS.
Read article 'François de Rose: strategist and visionary'
The last of CERN’s founding fathers, a loyal supporter and a dear friend, passed away at age 103.
Read article 'Greater than the sum of the parts'
The idea of CERN has succeeded in the goal of bringing European countries to work peacefully together, says Agnieszka Zalewska, CERN Council president
