Author Archives: chrisquigg

John David Jackson, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, whose magisterial textbook Classical Electrodynamics has shaped graduate education for more than a half century, died on 20 May 2016 in Lansing, Michigan … Read my JDJ obituary in … Continue reading →

This month, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, which straddles the Swiss-French border northwest of Geneva, celebrates its sixtieth birthday … Read my Back Page essay in the August/September 2014 issue of APS News.

… was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental … Continue reading →

Several of the leading actors in the discovery of spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking as an origin of particle mass have described their personal involvement. Their words carry a special fascination. Interview with Philip Anderson by Alexei Kojevnikov, November 23, 1999, Niels Bohr Library … Continue reading →