Extensive contribution from our group in Milano-Bicocca!

Physics History October 1956 Until the pair’s explosive paper, physicists assumed that particles would act the same when mirrored.

One of the things it's hard to appreciate from a modern viewpoint is how alien the idea of parity violation was at the time. I tried to capture some of the resistance to the idea here, and the brilliance of Lee, Yang, and Wu to capitalize on it.

In picture 2 next to the water tower I guess is BLD38.

1: mategnin border control, 2: water tower, 3: main building seen from route de meyrin

50 years of Charm

Congratulations @willpietrak.bsky.social for your new adventure! It was a pleasure working with you. Good luck!

Attending the excellent seminar of Josh Bendavid on the W mass at CMS at Milano Bicocca today reminded me of the difficulties of properly aligning a particle detector 😅