Interviews

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Since its establishment, CERN's Experimental Physics department (EP) produces cutting-edge research supporting the activities of the laboratory and serving the international particle physics community. Since its establishment, EP continuously…

An interview with Nobel Laureate Adam Riess

An interview with Nobel Laureate Adam Riess (Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the Johns Hopkins University) who was jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics, with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt, for discovering the accelerated…

Collecting the pieces of the Infinity Puzzle - An Interview with Frank Close

So what is the Infinity Puzzle about? When quantum electrodynamics was used beyond the simplest approximations it gave nonsense: infinity came as the answer for quantities that have sensible measured values. This problem was solved in 1947, when a…

Interview with René BRUN

Rene joined CERN in 1973. While working with C. Rubbia at the ISR he developped the HBOOK package still in use today. In 1975 he was in charge of the simulation and reconstruction software for NA44 where GEANT1 and GEANT2 were created. In 1981, he…

Meeting the challenges of the High-Energy ISOLDE!

The On-Line Isotope Mass Separator ISOLDE is a facility dedicated to the production, study and use of exotic nuclei located far from the valley of stability i.e. far from the species found naturally on Earth. These exotic nuclei are being studied in…