Read article 'Our Courier'
Our Courier
The CERN Courier is not exclusively CERN’s. Its subtitle “International Journal of High-Energy Physics” stands as a friendly warning to all those readers who might otherwise think it is ...
Read article 'Our Courier'
Read article 'Maintaining an ideal'
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'
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'
In search of hidden light
Swapan Chattopadhyay discusses the HL-LHC, and the future search for dark matter/energy.
Read article 'Seeing is believing'
Seeing is believing
Lucio Rossi on the beauty that correlates particles and light.
Read article 'Helping CERN to benefit society'
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'
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 he...
Read article 'Theory at CERN turns 62'
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'
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 moderniza...
Read article 'A shining light in the Middle East'
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...
