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CERN pulls Strings together

The annual “Strings” conference draws together a large number of active researchers in the field from all over the world.

Edoardo Amaldi: a true statesman of science

Edoardo Amaldi was a leading figure in Italian science in the 20th century, particularly in fundamental experimental physics.

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...

CERN inaugurates the LHC

The LHC inauguration ceremony officially marked the end of 24 years of conception, development, construction and assembly of the biggest and most sophisticated scientific tool in the world.

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 ...

Getting heavy on Capri

The Second Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Heavy Flavour Physics took place on 16–18 June in Anacapri, Capri, Italy – the same location as the first meeting in the series in ...

ALBA: a synchrotron light source for Spain

Progress of a new, third-generation light source

The Higgs and the LHC

Understanding the Higgs sector.

LHC first beam: a day to remember

At a little before 10.30 a.m. on 10 September, two dots on a colour screen in the CERN Control Centre (CCC) marked the successful first complete turn of protons clockwise round the LHC. It was less t...