People Archives – Page 35 of 42

Frank Krienen: a talent for ingenious invention

Colleagues and friends of Frank Krienen recall some of his major contributions to experimental particle physics

Impressions of the LHC 2008 open days

Photographs from the day that the world came to CERN.

The Large Hadron Collider runs on woman power

In particle physics, as in much of the rest of physics and engineering, the practitioners are generally men. However, women do become involved and some even break through to important positions.

Barry Barish and the GDE: mission achievable

Barish talks about his career, life and the future of particle physics and the proposed ILC.

From BCS to the LHC

Steven Weinberg reflects on spontaneous symmetry breaking - an idea particle physicists learnt from Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer's theory of superconductivity.