CERN Accelerating science

Carlo Rubbia’s name is closely related to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Simon van der Meer, for the work he had done as head of the UA1 collaboration

Ted Wilson was involved in the design of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and played a leading role in its commissioning

Three teams of secondary school pupils from Estonia, Japan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN and DESY

Violette Brisson played an active part in the discovery of neutral currents; she was head of the Gargamelle group at the Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris

Kjell Johnsen was Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) project leader when the accelerator was built

The FASER and FORMOSA collaborations team up to test a demonstrator experiment to detect particles with a tiny electrical charge

Georges Charpak received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1968 invention of the multi-wire proportional chamber, which revolutionised particle detection

Helge Ravn was part of the ISOLDE group from the beginning. When ISOLDE began operations at CERN in 1967, it was unique in the world

Paolo Zanella came to the CERN computing group in 1962, just a few years after the first computer had arrived

Peter Higgs passed away on 8 April at the age of 94

With this measurement the LHC is again demonstrating its ability to provide very high-precision measurements and bringing new insights into an old mystery

Madeleine Znoy was one of the people responsible for “scanning” the films from the bubble chambers for interesting events