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A heartfelt tribute

A tribute to Willibald Jentschke who passed away in March 2022.

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 ...

Remembering Willi

Article in memory of Willibald Jentschke.

With gratitude to Willi

Willibald Jentschke had a significant influence on the course of my early scientific career for which I will always be grateful.

CERN and Saclay: 40 years of co-operation

The Saclay research centre opened its doors in 1952, just two years before CERN was founded. For much of the time since then, the two laboratories have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration, spanning the d...

MACRO delivers its final word on monopoles

The MACRO experiment searched for magnetic monopoles throughout the 1990s. It found none but set stringent limits.

Hadronic interactions in Slovakia

The Hadron Structure 2002 conference covered topics ranging from spin studies to relativistic nuclear physics, as Dusan Bruncko and Jozef Urbán report.

When CERN saw the end of the alphabet

The W and Z particles were first observed at CERN 20 years ago by the UA1 and UA2 experiments. Daniel Denegri, who worked with UA1, recollects the spirit of discovery at the time.