Culture and history Archives – Page 8 of 104

CERN’s proton synchrotron turns 60

A colloquium was held at CERN on 25 November 2019.

Maxwell’s enduring legacy

Malcom Longair has written a monumental account of the Cavendish Laboratory.

ATLAS – A 25 Year Insider Story of the LHC Experiment

117 authors collaborated to write on diverse aspects of the ATLAS project.

The Weil conjectures

Karen Olsson's book tours the lives of Simone Weil and her brother, the noted mathematician André Weil.

Austria and CERN celebrate 60 years

Associated in bygone days with the UA1 and DELPHI, today hundreds of Austrian scientists contribute to CERN’s experimental programme.

The interior of a radio-frequency cavity

The rise of French particle physics

Founded 80 years ago, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is one of Europe’s largest research institutions.

L’intérieur d’une cavité de radiofréquence

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.

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.

A quadrupole next to one of the long dipole magnets in LEP

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...