Read article 'L’essor de la physique des particules en France'
Fondé il y a 80 ans, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), en France, est l’une des plus importantes institutions de recherche en Europe.
Read article 'Accelerating magnet technology'
Superconducting magnet technology has fuelled some of the greatest discoveries in high-energy physics and is at the core of existing and next-generation circular particle accelerators, writes Luca Bot...
Read article 'LEP’s electroweak leap'
In the autumn of 1989 the Large Electron Positron collider (LEP) delivered the first of several results that still dominate the landscape of particle physics today.
Read article 'The greatest lepton collider'
LEP was the highest energy e+e– collider ever built, with levels of precision that remain unsurpassed in accelerator physics. Former CERN director of accelerators Steve Myers tells LEP’s story fro...
Read article 'Tunnelling for physics'
John Osborne, Alexandra Tudora and Ben Swatton survey the geological, environmental and technical constraints of a post-LHC collider.
Read article 'My contemporary and my friend'
André Martin witnessed some of the key moments in Gell-Mann’s scientific life, and became a close friend along the way.
Read article 'Memories from Caltech'
Stephen Wolfram reflects on Gell-Mann’s complex character and his rivalry with Richard Feynman.
Read article 'We’ve been here before…'
Tales of colliders contained in 60 illustrious years of CERN Courier offer a rich perspective on the strategic decisions facing the field today.
Read article 'Strong interactions'
Harald Fritzsch, who collaborated with Gell-Mann in the early 1970s, describes the steps that led to a full understanding of strong interactions.
Read article 'Gell-Mann’s multi-dimensional genius'
Murray Gell-Mann was one of the great geniuses of the 20th century, says Lars Brink, and stands out among other Nobel laureates.
