Over decades,groups at CERN, Brookhaven, and Fermilab have mounted dedicated experiments to determine the muon's magnetic moment, made key inventions, assiduously reduced systematic uncertainties, and stimulated deeper theoretical understanding. breakthroughprize.org/News/98
I'm delighted to announce that rhkorea_books has just published the Korean edition of Grace in All Simplicity blog.naver.com/randomhouse1...
Two books for our time:
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday / Die Welt von Gestern;
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz.
And he picked Utah State over Villanova!
Congratulations Joel Butler, @apsphysics.bsky.social W.K.H. Panofsky Prizewinner in Experimental Particle Physics for
exceptional leadership in heavy-flavor experiments at Fermilab and @cmsexperiment.bsky.social @cern.bsky.social
Willis Lamb Nobel Lecture, 1955: "I have heard it said that «the finder of a new elementary particle used to be rewarded by a Nobel Prize, but such a discovery now ought to be punished by a $10,000 [now $121,400] fine»". But I celebrate with LHCb. More doubly heavy baryons! Long live spectroscopy!
Students and young postdocs—Apply by April 1 for the Summer Session of the US Particle Accelerator School
uspas.fnal.gov/programs/202...
Well worth watching!
Many informative talks at the 60th Anniversary Conference of the Rencontres de Moriond
moriond.in2p3.fr/60years/agen...
Action photo of my after-dinner talk at the Restaurant du Sénat, Paris, celebrating 60 years of the Rencontres de Moriond
Third- and fourth-year undergraduates: apply by 31 January for the DESY Summer Student Program,
www.desy.de/f/students/2...
In the footsteps of Michael Faraday, master of the public lecture: my "Advice to a Lecturer," lss.fnal.gov/archive/2023...
Happy Holidays!
Congratulations to Henry Frisch on the publication of his novel treatment of classical mechanics.
In celebration of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (quantum2025.org), A New Year’s Gift for Students and Teachers of Quantum Mechanics doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Liquid Paper (Ledger Green) for corrections.
Life before LaTeX …
Charming and informative conversation about the origins of USCMS and the LHC Physics Center @fermilab.bsky.social
2025 Pleasure of Reading
Percival Everett, James
Samantha Harvey, Orbital
David Lodge, The Writing Game
Han Kang, Greek Lessons
Colombe Schneck, La tendresse du crawl
Julian Barnes, Changing My Mind
Gertude Stein, Paris France
Mariah Fredericks, The Wharton Plot
Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story
2025 Notable Reading: Public Life
Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner, How Big Things Get Done
Ronan Farrow, Not a Very Good Murderer
Evan Osnos, To Have and Have Yacht
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom
Jason Stanley, Erasing History
2025 Notable Science Reading
Andreas Daum, Alexander von Humboldt
Frank Close, Destroyer of Worlds
Carllo Rovelli, Helgoland
Steven Weinberg, A Life in Physics
Carl Zimmer, Airborne
Alec Nevala-Lee, Collisions
Emily Monosson, Blight
Michael Mann & Peter Hotez, Science under Siege
A brief tribute to Bill Bardeen.
RIP Bill Bardeen, superb theorist and exemplary colleague.
Digital editions of Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions 30% off at press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
Slides indico.cern.ch/event/148089... and video cds.cern.ch/record/2948480 for my keynote address, "From the November Revolution toward the Millennium: Discoveries, Insights, Tools," at the Fourth International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics
Many excellent presentations and conversations this week @cern.bsky.social for the 4th Intl Symposium on the History of Particle Physics: indico.cern.ch/event/148089...
An exemplary recipient!
And here is a snippet …
And who was Marietta Blau? A pioneer of the emulsion method. bit.ly/GraceSimplic... pp. 70–
