Culture and history Archives – Page 96 of 104

Four decades in the proton stronghold

Some 40 years after it was commissioned, and as well as continuing to provide particles to its own physics programme, Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron has a new future as the injector ...

Synchrotron radiation is brighter than ever

What began life as an unwanted energy loss has become a major research industry. Dominique Cornuéjols of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble looks at the history and accomplishm...

Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects

Now in paperback, this comprehensive textbook looks at a fruitful area of inflationary cosmological dynamics.

Knots and Feynman Diagrams

This book should be useful for theoretical physicists and for mathematicians.

The Physics of Particle Detection

Claus Grupen reviews in 2000 The Physics of Particle Detection.

Wolfgang Pauli: never to be excluded

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Pauli, who was born in Vienna on 25 April 1900 and died in Zürich on 15 December 1958. Maurice Jacob describes several events that have been arrang...