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Uncle Scrooge discovers particle physics
Sometimes it takes a simple idea to get science concepts into children’s minds. When the world was in lockdown and parents everywhere juggled home schooling their kids, getting their own work done and keeping everybody happy and healthy, scientist Luigi Marchese thought back to his own childhood and had an idea. Why not combine what he loved as a child – reading comic books, especially the Italian “Topolino” magazine featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and co – and what he does as an adult – doing particle physics at the CMS detector – to keep kids edutained?
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Diana Aude Craik – Quantum Physicist
Diana Craik takes us into her lab on the ETH Hönggerberg campus. Right now, there’s only an empty optical table — but soon she’ll be using it to perform ultra-precise measurements on atoms.
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Charles Haenny Prize for Physics
The Charles Haenny Prize for Physics distinguishes a young physicist for research performed in Switzerland in any field of physics. The nominated work should be of excellent scientific quality and internationally competitive, while also respectful of humanity and its environment. In the spirit of Prof. Charles Haenny’s will, the prize aims to distinguish research based on an ethic of international collaboration or seeking to inhibit the use of physical knowledge for malicious goals.
24 Experiments until Christmas – Physics in Advent 2025
«Physics in Advent» is a very special scientific Advent calendar: from 1 to 24 December, children, students, teachers and all curious minds can discover a new, simple physics experiment every day.
Image: Uni Goettingen/L.Korrossy 2018
Maria Hämmerli – Quantum Electronics Engineer
We visit Maria Hämmerli at Albis Optoelectronics AG in Rüschlikon, where she works as a quantum electronics engineer.
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Behind the Scenes of the Large Hadron Collider Upgrade
The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is a huge accelerator used by several detector collaborations with over 10,000 scientists to advance our understanding of fundamental physics. While we often cover news like the measurement of new particles or the precise determination of fundamental constants, today we would like to focus on the less visible work needed for the LHC detectors to function. We are speaking with Dr. Silke Möbius, a postdoctoral researcher, and Camilla Tognina, an electrical engineer, who are developing a read-out system for the new inner detector (Inner Tracker) of the ATLAS experiment. This project started in 2018 in the group of Professor Michele Weber at the University of Bern and involved in total 37 people at the various stages of the project.
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