Read article 'Our Courier'
By Antonella Del Rosso. With a degree in physics and more than 15 years experience in science communication, Antonella Del Rosso became editor of the CERN Courier in September 2015. At CERN, she is a...
Read article 'Maintaining an ideal'
August 1959 saw the first issue of CERN Courier – “the long-expected internal bulletin” and idea of Cornelis Bakker, who was then CERN’s Director-General. The goals stated on the first...
Read article 'Pakistan: fulfilling Salam’s wish'
In September 1954, the European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN – officially came into existence. This was just nine years after the Second World War, when Europe was completely divided a...
Read article 'In search of hidden light'
Swapan Chattopadhyay discusses the HL-LHC, and the future search for dark matter/energy.
Read article 'Seeing is believing'
Lucio Rossi on the beauty that correlates particles and light.
Read article 'Helping CERN to benefit society'
I first came to CERN as a student in the mid 1980s, and spent an entrancing summer learning the extent of my lack of knowledge in the field of physics (considerable!) and meeting fellow students from ...
Read article 'CERN: a forward look'
On 1 July, the cycle of events celebrating CERN’s 60th anniversary opened in Paris with an event commemorating the anniversary of the CERN Convention, which was signed at the UNESCO headquarters i...
Read article 'Theory at CERN turns 62'
One of my most memorable experiences of CERN is from an early morning in the summer of 1966. I drove to CERN with my two small children, one and three years of age, to fetch their dad who had been on ...
Read article 'Thoughts on CERN’s future'
On its 60th birthday, CERN should, first of all, be justly praised for its scientific results – results that stem from the organization’s unique model, which has allowed the modernization of frag...
Read article 'A shining light in the Middle East'
CERN was conceived in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when two ambitions came together – to enable construction of scientific facilities that were beyond the means of individual countries, and to fo...
