Read article 'Making Physics: a Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory'
Making Physics: a Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory
David C Rahm reviews in 1999 Making Physics: a Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Read article 'Making Physics: a Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory'
Read article 'A wide span of physics'
A wide span of physics
Nobel prizewinner in 1984, architect and mason of CERN's biggest ever physics discovery and director-general of CERN from 1989 to 1993, Carlo Rubbia remains a continual fountainhead of new ideas. A ...
Read article 'Copenhagen interpretation'
Copenhagen interpretation
Now playing to full houses in London's theatreland is Copenhagen, a fascinating new play that imagines a dialogue between the ghosts of quantum pioneers Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.
Read article 'Detectors for Particle Radiation by Konrad Kleinknecht'
Detectors for Particle Radiation by Konrad Kleinknecht
The second edition of this popular text has been updated with the inclusion of recent detector developments and a presentation of modern experimental facilities.
Read article 'Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory'
Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
Tian Yu Cao's book Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories, published in 1997, was hailed in many quarters as a masterpiece. The same careful thinking is evident in this book, the re...
Read article 'Historic hardware'
Historic hardware
Article reporting the exhibition of hardware used to detect the W and Z particles in the microcosm exhibition.
Read article 'Electron–positron pioneer'
Electron–positron pioneer
In 1960 Bruno Touschek gave a talk on electron-positron collisions that would change the face of physics. Last November, 20 years after his death, physicists gathered to celebrate Touschek's work.
Read article 'Synchrocyclotron survivor to bow out after 50 years'
Synchrocyclotron survivor to bow out after 50 years
After 15 years in physics, Harvard University's 160 MeV machine was converted into a cancer therapy centre. Having treated over 7500 patients in the ensuing 34 years, it is being phased out after tw...
Read article 'Twenty-five years of neutral currents'
Twenty-five years of neutral currents
In the summer of 1973, an experiment at the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN discovered a new physics effect. Gordon Fraser looks back at how confirmation of the existence of neutral currents ushere...
Read article '25 years of asymptotic freedom'
25 years of asymptotic freedom
A quarter of a century ago, several theorists published an unexpected result which opened the door to quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the unusual field theory that describes quarks and gluons. This ye...
