On March 11, 1972 CERN engineer Bent Stumpe proposed a new type of interactive computer display for controlling the labs new Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator.
While I was generally pleased by the content and message of Chris Knight's article on accelerator physics as a career in the April 2010 edition of symmetry, I think Chris missed the growing contributions of smaller US universities to the training of the next generation of accelerator physici
When Princeton University geoscientist Catherine Peters learned about a plan to build the world's deepest science laboratory in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota, she saw a chance to tackle an urgent challenge: how to store carbon dioxide deep underground so it can't escape into th
Baseball fans and physicists share two key loves: numbers and acronyms. While fans pore over statistics on RBIs, OBPs, and ERAs, physicists analyze data from particle accelerators such as RHIC, LHC, and CESR.
Pier Oddone wandered past students who were setting up electrical circuits and asked how many of them were considering careers in science. Half raised their hands. “What about a career in physics?” he asked. All but two hands dropped.
Sterilizing equipment, a critical aspect of modern medical care, can be accomplished by bombarding the equipment and its packaging with a beam of electrons or X-rays derived from a particle accelerator.
Over the years, John Zaklikowski raided his savings account to purchase every mother board, cell phone and floppy disk in sight. Now he’s used them to create artwork modeled on large-scale particle physics experiments.
In the summer of 1928, the young Ernest O. Lawrence set out across America in a Flying Cloud coupe to begin his new life at the University of California, Berkeley.
Walk like a physicist, point by point, through three of the displays that highlight scientific and technical milestones from the Large Hadron Collider's first months of operation.
What inspired you in physics? Was it the curriculum at school? For me it was a lecture about Mars that Carl Sagan gave at the Royal Institution; it was 1977, and he invited the audience—I was watching on the TV—to have tea with him on Mars.
