Read article 'Werner Heisenberg: the Columbus of quantum mechanics'
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Werner Heisenberg, pioneer of quantum mechanics and theoretical high-energy physics. Helmut Rechenberg, Heisenberg's last postgraduate, co-editor of his ...
Read article 'Accelerator prizes'
US Particle Accelerator School prizes for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology for this year went to Tor Raubenheimer of SLAC, Stanford and Dieter Moehl of CERN.
Read article 'Enrico Fermi: genius and giant of science'
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Enrico Fermi, one of the giants of 20th-century science, and one of the last physicists to be both an accomplished experimentalist and an influential theo...
Read article 'KEK prize encourages innovation'
The KEK high-energy physics laboratory in Japan has established a new prize – the KEK Technology prize – to encourage its engineers to tackle technical challenges. The first winners were...
Read article 'The observatory at the end of the Earth'
Physics student Torsten Schmidt of DESY Zeuthen regularly undergoes the ultimate terrestrial physics experience - living and working at the South Pole with the AMANDA neutrino experiment. In this in...
Read article 'Awards highlight top suppliers'
The CMS and ATLAS collaborations currently building experiments for CERN's LHC collider have recently been handing out their very own Oscars to their most meritorious suppliers.
Read article 'Diamonds are forever…'
At a graduation ceremony at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, technician Mik Rebak was awarded an honorary MSc for his ingenious work in engineering diamond targets in nuclear an...
Read article 'Wolfgang Pauli: never to be excluded'
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Pauli, who was born in Vienna on 25 April 1900 and died in Zürich on 15 December 1958. Maurice Jacob describes several events that have been arrang...
Read article 'Higgs is honoured in Edinburgh'
As part of the recent UK Institute of Physics conference, Particle Physics 2000, in Edinburgh, a special symposium was held to celebrate the 70th year of Peter Higgs, after whom the elusive "Higgs ...
Read article 'CMS contractors receive LHC collaboration awards'
Three contractors involved in CERN's forthcoming CM experiment's magnet project became the first beneficiaries of the collaboration's new awards scheme on 5 June.
