Read article '2002 Nobel Prize for Physics is announced'
2002 Nobel Prize for Physics is announced
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Physics to three astrophysics pioneers.
Read article '2002 Nobel Prize for Physics is announced'
Read article 'Paul Dirac: a genius in the history of physics'
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 'Victor Weisskopf: looking back on a distinguished career'
Victor Weisskopf: looking back on a distinguished career
Wolfgang Kummer pays tribute to former CERN director-general Victor Weisskopf, who died on 22 April at the age of 93.
Read article 'Werner Heisenberg: the Columbus of quantum mechanics'
Werner Heisenberg: the Columbus of quantum mechanics
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Werner Heisenberg, pioneer of quantum mechanics and theoretical high-energy physics. Helmut Rechenberg, Heisenberg's last postgraduate, co-editor of his ...
Read article 'Accelerator prizes'
Accelerator prizes
US Particle Accelerator School prizes for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology for this year went to Tor Raubenheimer of SLAC, Stanford and Dieter Moehl of CERN.
Read article 'Enrico Fermi: genius and giant of science'
Enrico Fermi: genius and giant of science
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Enrico Fermi, one of the giants of 20th-century science, and one of the last physicists to be both an accomplished experimentalist and an influential theo...
Read article 'KEK prize encourages innovation'
KEK prize encourages innovation
The KEK high-energy physics laboratory in Japan has established a new prize – the KEK Technology prize – to encourage its engineers to tackle technical challenges. The first winners were...
Read article 'The observatory at the end of the Earth'
The observatory at the end of the Earth
Physics student Torsten Schmidt of DESY Zeuthen regularly undergoes the ultimate terrestrial physics experience - living and working at the South Pole with the AMANDA neutrino experiment. In this in...
Read article 'Awards highlight top suppliers'
Awards highlight top suppliers
The CMS and ATLAS collaborations currently building experiments for CERN's LHC collider have recently been handing out their very own Oscars to their most meritorious suppliers.
Read article 'Diamonds are forever…'
Diamonds are forever…
At a graduation ceremony at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, technician Mik Rebak was awarded an honorary MSc for his ingenious work in engineering diamond targets in nuclear an...
