Tag: INTERVIEWS
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Interview with John Ellis
Interview with John Ellis Summer students met and discussed with John Ellis about his early career in physics, his current research interests and his views on the relation between philosophy and science… When did you decide that you would become a theoretical physicist? When I was a child, my mother often used to take my
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Interview with Luciano Maiani and Veronica Riquer
Interview with Luciano Maiani and Veronica Riquer How did you become involved with the EPLANET project? L.M. When I was Director General I happened to discuss the future of Latin America with Juan Antonio Rubio. He convinced me that Latin America had endless possibilities for development, especially in the field of particle physics. In addition,
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Entretien avec Peter Jenni
Entretien avec Peter Jenni Peter Jenni a commencé très jeune à s’intéresser à la physique. Il avait toujours aimé lire des textes de vulgarisation sur le sujet, même s’il n’avait pas été très motivé par son professeur de physique du secondaire. Il lui sembla naturel d'opter pour des études de physique, en se concentrant sur
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Collecting the pieces of the Infinity Puzzle – An Interview with Frank Close
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 way was found
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Interview with Peter Jenni
Interview with Peter Jenni Peter Jenni's interest in physics began in a very young age. He had always enjoyed reading about physics although his high-school physics teacher wasn’t very inspiring as an educator. Studying Physics seemed as a natural choice, hence he decided to focus on experimental physics as well as astronomy and mathematics. He
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Interview with René BRUN
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 joined OPAL at LEP, creating the
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Meeting the challenges of the High-Energy ISOLDE!
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 many different experiments in the fields