Read article 'Bogolyubov conference caravan takes in Moscow, Dubna and Kiev'
Last year the 90th anniversary of the birth of Russian scientific polymath Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov was marked by an international conference, which travelled through the three cities where he...
Read article 'Nobel Prize for Physics 1999'
The last Nobel Prize for Physics this century goes to Gerardus 't Hooft of Utrecht and Martinus Veltman of Bilthoven in the Netherlands, "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interacti...
Read article 'Eclipse of a visionary'
Bjørn Wiik, visionary and talented director-general of the DESY Laboratory, Hamburg, died in a domestic accident in February, leaving the laboratory, and a major part of the world's high-energy physi...
Read article 'A tribute to Bjørn Wiik'
Bjørn Wiik's important role in furthering international collaboration was also highlighted at a special gathering at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily.
Read article 'Faces and Places'
Faces and places section from the CERN Courier August 1999 issue.
Read article 'Obituaries'
Obituaries for Bianca Monteleoni-Conforto and Rostislav Mikhailovich Ryndin who passed away on 1999.
Read article 'A wide span of physics'
Nobel prizewinner in 1984, architect and mason of CERN's biggest ever physics discovery and director-general of CERN from 1989 to 1993, Carlo Rubbia remains a continual fountainhead of new ideas. A ...
Read article 'Michael Witherell to direct Fermilab'
Michael Witherell, from the the University of California, Santa Barbara, will succeed John Peoples as director of Fermilab on 1 July. The search for a new Fermilab director began last year, when John ...
Read article 'New Director for SLAC'
Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre Director Burt Richter will step down on 31 August. His successor will be Jonathan Dorfan, associate director of SLAC and head of its recently dedicated B-Factory pro...
Read article 'Work on triangle anomaly wins Dirac Medal'
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste has awarded its Dirac Medal this year to Stephen Adler of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and Roman Jackiw of MI...
