Read article 'Hendrik Verweij 1931–2025'
Hendrik Verweij 1931–2025
Hendrik Verweij, who was for many years a driving force in the development of electronics for high-energy physics, passed away on 11 August 2025.
Read article 'Hendrik Verweij 1931–2025'
Read article 'The future of particle therapy'
The future of particle therapy
PTCOG president Marco Durante describes an exciting future for the technology and shares his vision for closer international cooperation between medicine, academia and industry.
Read article 'Polymath, humanitarian, gentleman'
Polymath, humanitarian, gentleman
Herwig Schopper, Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, passed away on 19 August at the age of 101.
Read article 'The physicist who fought war and cancer'
The physicist who fought war and cancer
Subatomic physics has shaped both the conduct of war and the treatment of cancer. Joseph Rotblat, who left the Manhattan Project on moral grounds and later advanced radiotherapy, embodies this dual le...
Read article 'Prepped for re-entry'
Prepped for re-entry
When Francesca Luoni logs on each morning at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, she’s thinking about something few of us ever consider: how to keep astronauts safe from the invisible haza...
Read article 'John Peoples 1933–2025'
John Peoples 1933–2025
John Peoples, the third director of Fermilab, who guided the lab through one of the most critical periods in its history, passed away on 25 June 2025.
Read article 'Ole Hansen 1934–2025'
Ole Hansen 1934–2025
Ole Hansen, a leading Danish nuclear-reaction physicist, passed away on 11 May 2025.
Read article 'Michele Arneodo 1959–2025'
Michele Arneodo 1959–2025
Michele Arneodo, professor of physics at the University of Piemonte Orientale and chairperson elect of the CMS Collaboration Board, passed away on 12 August 2025.
Read article 'Miro Preger 1946–2025'
Miro Preger 1946–2025
Miro Andrea Preger, a distinguished accelerator physicist in the Accelerator Division of the Frascati National Laboratories, passed away on 1 September 2025.
Read article 'Becoming T-shaped'
Becoming T-shaped
For Heike Riel, IBM fellow and head of science and technology at IBM Research, successful careers in science are built not by choosing between academia and industry, but by moving fluidly between them...
