Read article 'Rutherford’s Nobel Prize and the one he didn’t get'
“I have dealt with many different transformations with various periods of time, but the quickest that I have met was my own transformation in one moment from a physicist to a chemist.” Ernest Ruth...
Read article 'Partons, QCD and strings'
When David Gross first came to CERN in the late 1960s, student protests across Europe, the Vietnam War and the Apollo Program were among the topics dominating world news. In particle physics the jury ...
Read article 'Nobel rewards for work on broken symmetry'
Broken symmetry in particle physics is the underlying theme for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Read article 'The LHC: from dream to reality'
Robert Aymar on the start-up of the LHC.
Read article 'Nobel expectations for new physics at the LHC'
What will the LHC bring? Nobel laureates at Lindau share their thoughts.
Read article 'Nobel dreams at Lindau'
The 2008 meeting of Nobel laureates had more than a touch of CERN.
Read article 'Lisa Randall: dreams of warped space-time'
Antonella Del Rosso speaks to straight-talking physicist Lisa Randall
Read article 'Frank Krienen: a talent for ingenious invention'
Colleagues and friends of Frank Krienen recall some of his major contributions to experimental particle physics
Read article 'Impressions of the LHC 2008 open days'
Photographs from the day that the world came to CERN.
Read article 'The Large Hadron Collider runs on woman power'
In particle physics, as in much of the rest of physics and engineering, the practitioners are generally men. However, women do become involved and some even break through to important positions.
