La Silla 50th anniversary culminates with total solar eclipse
Visitors enjoy outreach programme at ESO’s first observatory
EPJ@20 – Celebrating 20 Years of the European Physical Journal
2018 saw the 20th anniversary of the founding of EPJ, the European Physical Journal. Launched in 1998, EPJ brought together the combined strengths of some long-established national European physics journals, starting with the initial merger of Journal de Physique, Il Nuovo Cimento and Zeitschrift für Physik, and continuing with the adoption and in- corporation of Acta Physica Hungarica, Anales de Fisica, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, Fizika A, and Portugaliae Physica. e EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee includes now members from 25 European learned societies.
Physics in YOUR life: celebrate physics with the EPS!
In 2018 the European Physical Society is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark the event, the EPS created a series of twelve banners covering several topics of physic
Editorial: Half a Century of EPS ! The European Physical Society celebrates its 50th anniversary
It is always great to celebrate an anniversary, even more when it is for half a century!
What follows is not really an editorial but most a description of ongoing activities based on a presentation I gave at the EPS Council on 7th of April in Paris.
The SEENET-MTP marks the 15 years of its existence
With a hope of bridging the gap between Southeastern and Western European scientific community, the participants of the UNESCO sponsored Balkan Workshop BW2003 (Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia) came to a common agreement on the initiative for the creation of the Southeast European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (SEENET-MTP). The Network was a natural extension of the WIGV initiative – Scientists in Global Responsibility, launched by Julius Wess in 1999.
EPS 50th anniversary: Klaus Gottstein, among the first EPS members
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the European Physical Society interviewed members from the very beginning. Klaus Gottstein, a German physicist and member of the EPS since 1968, kindly answered our questions.
An interview with Francis Netter: one of the first followers of EPS!
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the European Physical Society met with members from the very beginning. Here is the interview with Francis Netter, member of the EPS since 1968.
Editorial: EPS a utopia?
EDP Sciences has finished digitizing all of back issues of Europhysics News (EPN). Now all EPN issues are in digital format and with a very good quality.
Italy and the ILL: two decades of successful collaboration in neutron science
2017 is a milestone year for Italy at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), marking the 20th anniversary of its Scientific Membership. Looking back over the last two decades, the collaboration is particularly impressive in terms of the variety, novelty and importance of its many achievements.
CERN’s 60th anniversary
On 29 September 1954, the CERN Convention entered into force, officially establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research with 12 European member states. Now the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory, CERN is celebrating in 2014 “60 years of science for peace”, with an official ceremony and several public events taking place throughout September.
The highlight of this anniversary month is the official ceremony on 29 September, which will be attended by many representatives of CERN’s Member States, Associate Member States and Observers…
First proposal about WWW from 1989
Exactly 25 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal addressing the complex issue of information management at CERN. The project was based on linked information using hypertexts. Revolutionising the idea of archiving documents, it laid the foundation of the Internet.
In 1984, Tim Berners-Lee took up a fellowship at CERN, 8 years after his graduation from the Queen’s College at Oxford University, United Kingdom. His first job there was related with the distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition and system control. In this context T. Berners-Lee submitted the proposal that would provide…
1954: CERN was born
The Laboratory was the first scientific pan-European endeavour. Just a few years after the Second World War, twelve European countries joined forces and built what has become the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. In 2014, CERN will celebrate 60 years of cutting-edge science for peace.
It all started in 1949, when French Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Louis de Broglie called for the creation of a European laboratory. The idea was quickly adopted and, in 1953, twelve countries signed the Convention for the establishment…
