Read article '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...
Read article 'Higgs is honoured in Edinburgh'
As part of the recent UK Institute of Physics conference, Particle Physics 2000, in Edinburgh, a special symposium was held to celebrate the 70th year of Peter Higgs, after whom the elusive "Higgs ...
Read article 'CMS contractors receive LHC collaboration awards'
Three contractors involved in CERN's forthcoming CM experiment's magnet project became the first beneficiaries of the collaboration's new awards scheme on 5 June.
Read article 'Honouring Burton Richter'
Winner of a Nobel Prize for physics, a longtime laboratory director and a leading figure in international science - Burton Richter's contributions range wide. A recent celebration at the Stanford Li...
Read article 'Bogolyubov conference caravan takes in Moscow, Dubna and Kiev'
Last year the 90th anniversary of the birth of Russian scientific polymath Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov was marked by an international conference, which travelled through the three cities where he...
Read article 'Nobel Prize for Physics 1999'
The last Nobel Prize for Physics this century goes to Gerardus 't Hooft of Utrecht and Martinus Veltman of Bilthoven in the Netherlands, "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interacti...
Read article 'Eclipse of a visionary'
Bjørn Wiik, visionary and talented director-general of the DESY Laboratory, Hamburg, died in a domestic accident in February, leaving the laboratory, and a major part of the world's high-energy physi...
Read article 'A tribute to Bjørn Wiik'
Bjørn Wiik's important role in furthering international collaboration was also highlighted at a special gathering at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily.
Read article 'Faces and Places'
Faces and places section from the CERN Courier August 1999 issue.
Read article 'Obituaries'
Obituaries for Bianca Monteleoni-Conforto and Rostislav Mikhailovich Ryndin who passed away on 1999.
