Category: At CERN

  • CMS honours its 2022 Award and PhD Thesis Award winners

    CMS honours its 2022 Award and PhD Thesis Award winners

    CMS PhD Thesis Award winners 2022 Every year, the CMS collaboration recognises the outstanding achievements of young scientists through this award, highlighting the exceptional contributions made by doctoral researchers in advancing the field of high-energy physics. From the 32 nominations received this year, three winners were selected by the committee: Angira Rastogi, Willem Verbeke and

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  • LHCb celebrates prizewinners

    LHCb awarded its annual prizes at its recent collaboration week. As usual, prizes were awarded for outstanding contributions made by early-career scientists and for the best PhD theses. In addition, for the first time, awards were given for outstanding technical contributions to LHCb. The final industry award for contributions to LHCb Upgrade I was also

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  • Joan Heemskerk wins CERN’s Collide Copenhagen residency award

    Joan Heemskerk wins CERN’s Collide Copenhagen residency award

    Joan Heemskerk, one of the pioneers of web-based art, has been selected as the winner of this year’s edition

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  • A diverse meeting for a diverse fire brigade

    A diverse meeting for a diverse fire brigade

    CERN’s Fire and Rescue service hosts the 18th meeting of the CTIF Commission for Women in Fire and Rescue Services

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  • CERN marks World Environment Day with a new video

    Monday 5 June marked the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day, one of the United Nations’ vehicles for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment

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  • Klaus Bätzner (1936 – 2022)

    Klaus Bätzner (1936 – 2022)

    Klaus Bätzner(1936 – 2022) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/cern/klaus-batzner-1936-2022) It was with great sadness that we recently learned that our friend and former colleague Klaus Bätzner passed away in December 2022. Klaus devoted his career to CERN. Among the many projects he worked on were the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and increasing

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  • Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project

    Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project

    For 684 budding scientists from schools in the local area, the 11th edition of the Be a scientist project wrapped up on Thursday, 11 May 2023.

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  • Celebrating 50 years of the CERN relay race – and details of this year’s event!

    Celebrating 50 years of the CERN relay race – and details of this year’s event!

    As this year’s edition of the legendary race approaches, the time has come to look back on 50 years of exuberance, silly costumes, beer drinking and the occasional bit of running

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  • Yolande Agnosini (1933 – 2023)

    Yolande Agnosini (1933 – 2023)

    Yolande Agnosini(1933 – 2023) — Yolande Beatrix Agnosini, née Soriano, passed away on Saturday, 8 April at the age of 89. She is now reunited with her husband, Fausto Agnosini, who also worked at CERN. Yolande spent her entire career at CERN. Following a stint at the computer card punching service, she followed a course

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  • Happy birthday to the Passport to the Big Bang

    Happy birthday to the Passport to the Big Bang

    The Passport to the Big Bang discovery trail is celebrating its tenth anniversary – ten years during which local people have been able to find out about science and technology while cycling around the France-Geneva countryside.

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