Read article 'How European physics reached across the Wall'
In the early 1960s, East German physicists collaborated with CERN, despite the restrictions that existed as a result of the Berlin Wall. Thomas Stange, author of a book on the history of the Zeuthen l...
Read article 'ESO reaches 40'
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrates its 40th anniversary on 5 October
Read article 'High-Energy Particle Diffraction'
Elliot Leader reviews in 2002 High-Energy Particle Diffraction.
Read article 'Modern Cosmology'
Juan Garcia-Bellido reviews in 2002 Modern Cosmology.
Read article 'Space Radio Science'
Jim Cohen reviews in 2002 Space Radio Science.
Read article 'Paul Dirac: a genius in the history of physics'
This year is the 100th anniversary of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac who was born in Bristol, England, on 8 August 1902 and died on 20 October 1984 in Tallahassee, Florida, US. Richard Dalitz looks back ov...
Read article 'Supergravity celebrates quarter of a century'
The first complete theory of supergravity appeared 25 years ago last autumn. To mark the occasion, the State University of New York at Stony Brook held a workshop on the subject in December.
Read article 'Heavy Flavour Physics – Theory and Experimental Results in Heavy Quark Physics'
A graduate text based on lectures originally presented at the 55th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, held at St Andrews in 2001.
Read article 'Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries'
Robert Cailliau reviews in 2002 Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries.
Read article 'CERN’s summer student programme turns 40'
It was in 1962, when Victor Weisskopf was CERN director-general, that the laboratory’s summer student programme began.
