Doubting darkness
An interview with Erik Verlinde, who argues that dark matter is an illusion caused by an incomplete understanding of gravity.
Secrets of discovery
Did you expect that gravitational waves would be discovered during your lifetime? Yes, and I thought it quite likely it would come from two colliding black holes of just the sort that we did see. I wr...
Neutrino pioneer
When I meet Jack in his office in Building 2, he has just returned from a “splendid” birthday celebration – a classical-music concert “with a lady conductor”, he is quick to ...
CERN’s new management begins a five-year term
Résumé La nouvelle Direction du CERN entame un mandat de cinq ans Plusieurs défis attendent le CERN entre 2016 et 2020. L’arrêt technique hivernal des accélérateurs...
Yoichiro Nambu: breaking the symmetry
Yoichiro Nambu passed away on 5 July 2015 in Osaka. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic phys...
Massimo Tarenghi: a lifetime in the stars
Massimo Tarenghi fell in love with astronomy at age 14, when his mother took away his stamp collection – on which he spent more time than on his schoolbooks – and gave him a book entitled L...
A lifetime in biophysics
Shake hands with Eleanor Blakely and you are only one handshake away from John Lawrence – a pioneer of nuclear medicine and brother of Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel-prize-winning inventor of the...
Lee Teng: a passion for the accelerator fast lane
Résumé Lee Teng: une carrière passionnée dans les accélérateurs Cette année, la Société américaine de physique a décerné le prix Robert ...
Jentschke at CERN: 1971-1975
Willi Jentschke arrived at CERN to take over from Bernard Gregory as director-general at the start of 1971, a year of major developments for the laboratory and the beginning of a period of remarkable ...
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 ...
