Read article 'CERN, the violin and the music of the spheres'
The World Year of Physics is upon us, designated Einstein Year in the UK. Brian Foster considers the complex web of connections between two of the famous scientist's main passions - music and physics.
Read article 'Sergei Vavilov: luminary of Russian physics'
Sergei Vavilov, whose research led to the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, contributed greatly to establishing a strong base for physics in the USSR, especially during the difficult years of the 1930...
Read article 'Asymptotic freedom wins Nobel'
The 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek for their "discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
Read article 'From ‘tau’ to ‘top’ – the man behind the Dalitz plot'
Richard (Dick) Dalitz has spent more than 50 years in the study of elementary particles, the quark model and quantum chromodynamics. Here he talks to Melanie O'Byrne.
Read article 'Physics from heaven and Earth'
The International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics of the European Physical Society (HEP-EPS) provided a superb synergy between physics, history and music, as Felicitas Pauss reports.
Read article 'Charles Peyrou and his impact on physics'
Lucien Montanet, one of the closest colleagues of Charles Peyrou, who died on 6 April, recalls Peyrou's major contributions to physics and to research at CERN.
Read article 'Introduction'
The year 2002 saw the passing away of two great former CERN director-generals, Willibald Jentschke on 11 March and Viki Weisskopf on 21 April.
Read article 'DESY’s founding father'
Erich Lohrmann on the decisive impact of Willibald Jentschke on DESY's history
Read article 'A life in science'
A few months after celebrating his 90th birthday, Willibald Jentschke passed away on 11 March 2002.
Read article 'The ISR in the time of Jentschke'
The beginning of Willibald Jentschke's mandate at CERN coincided with the start-up of the world's first hadron collider, the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR).
