Chris Quigg
@chrisquigg.com
Physicist | Author | Lecturer | Books: Grace in All Simplicity; Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions | Supercollider Physics, Higgsologist | https://chrisquigg.com
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...
4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics
Dedicated to the memory of Herwig Schopper 1924-2025 Following in the mould established by precursors at Fermilab and SLAC, the 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics will brin...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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!
Huge congratulations to former CMS Spokesperson Joel Butler, recipient of the 2026 APS Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics! 👏
➡ Read more: cms.cern/news/cms-phy...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
An exemplary recipient!
And who was Marietta Blau? A pioneer of the emulsion method. bit.ly/GraceSimplic... pp. 70–
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
And who was Marietta Blau? A pioneer of the emulsion method. bit.ly/GraceSimplic... pp. 70–
C. N. Yang has died at age 103. Nobel Laureate for his work on parity nonconservation with T. D. Lee, he conceived non-Abelian gauge theories (now central in our efforts to describe the fundamental interactions) with Robert Mills.
October 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
C. N. Yang has died at age 103. Nobel Laureate for his work on parity nonconservation with T. D. Lee, he conceived non-Abelian gauge theories (now central in our efforts to describe the fundamental interactions) with Robert Mills.
Congratulations to Pierre Fayet, winner of the 2025 Larkin Award of the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (UMinnesota) for pioneering the supersymmetric standard model cse.umn.edu/ftpi/larkin-...
Accepting nominations
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October 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Congratulations to Pierre Fayet, winner of the 2025 Larkin Award of the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (UMinnesota) for pioneering the supersymmetric standard model cse.umn.edu/ftpi/larkin-...
I hope that arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348 will be of broad interest.
Perspectives and Questions: Toward an Expansive Agenda for Particle Physics
Global celebration greeted the 2012 discovery at CERN's Large Hadron Collider of a particle that matches the textbook description of the Higgs boson. That achievement validated a remarkable chain of t...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I hope that arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348 will be of broad interest.
Not a prediction, but a declaration: the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics should go to David Nygren for the conception of the Time Projection Chamber.
October 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Not a prediction, but a declaration: the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics should go to David Nygren for the conception of the Time Projection Chamber.
"Reflections on the 15-Foot Bubble Chamber at Fermilab"
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October 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Reflections on the 15-Foot Bubble Chamber at Fermilab"
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And here is Dan Freedman's original preprint: lss.fnal.gov/archive/1973...
September 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
And here is Dan Freedman's original preprint: lss.fnal.gov/archive/1973...
And do read "On Freedom," a challenging and inspiring work!
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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September 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
And do read "On Freedom," a challenging and inspiring work!
A thoughtful reminder of the enlightened National Defense Education Act of 1958, which immeasurably aided the development of US science and scholarship from Steven Greenblatt: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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September 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A thoughtful reminder of the enlightened National Defense Education Act of 1958, which immeasurably aided the development of US science and scholarship from Steven Greenblatt: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Happy 180th birthday to @sciam.bsky.social, a trustworthy and inspiring source of information (and occasional whimsy), and thanks to its exceptional staff for their insight and breadth of vision. SciAm was a beacon of my youth!
Today, Scientific American turns 180—the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S. 🎉
Since 1845, we’ve shared the wonders of science with the world.
💫 Dive into 180 years of discovery: sciam.com/180
🧬 Explore pivotal moments in science: bit.ly/4mNTpGY
🎁 Win prizes: sciam.com/180contest
Since 1845, we’ve shared the wonders of science with the world.
💫 Dive into 180 years of discovery: sciam.com/180
🧬 Explore pivotal moments in science: bit.ly/4mNTpGY
🎁 Win prizes: sciam.com/180contest
August 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Happy 180th birthday to @sciam.bsky.social, a trustworthy and inspiring source of information (and occasional whimsy), and thanks to its exceptional staff for their insight and breadth of vision. SciAm was a beacon of my youth!
One of many pleasures of backpacking through Belgium on the GR5 (Hook of Holland to Nice) is the obligation to sample the local nectars: photos.app.goo.gl/rKMLpqeGCdX3...
August 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One of many pleasures of backpacking through Belgium on the GR5 (Hook of Holland to Nice) is the obligation to sample the local nectars: photos.app.goo.gl/rKMLpqeGCdX3...
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The AAPT Awards Committee invites nominations for all AAPT awards, citations, and medals. Nomination deadline is December 1. ow.ly/bafO50MNP65 #AAPTAwards #AAPT #Physics #PhysicsTeachers #ITeachPhysics
August 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The AAPT Awards Committee invites nominations for all AAPT awards, citations, and medals. Nomination deadline is December 1. ow.ly/bafO50MNP65 #AAPTAwards #AAPT #Physics #PhysicsTeachers #ITeachPhysics
The 16th International Neutrino Summer School opens today at Fermilab indico.fnal.gov/event/68891/
16th International Neutrino Summer School 2025
16th International Neutrino Summer School 2025 at Fermilab NPC Fermilab, August 11-22, 2025 For the past eighteen years, the International Neutrino Summer School has convened at locations around the w...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The 16th International Neutrino Summer School opens today at Fermilab indico.fnal.gov/event/68891/
Anticipating the new academic year …
Periodic reminder that additional references and a few corrections for Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions bit.ly/1nAZIwa may be found at bit.ly/GT2refs
Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions
A thoroughly revised edition of a landmark textbook on gauge theories and their applications to particle physics
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August 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Anticipating the new academic year …
Slides from my July 28, 2025 talk, "Colliders: Evolution and Promise," at the GGI Workshop, Exploring the Energy Frontier with Muon Beams agenda.infn.it/event/47981/...
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August 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Slides from my July 28, 2025 talk, "Colliders: Evolution and Promise," at the GGI Workshop, Exploring the Energy Frontier with Muon Beams agenda.infn.it/event/47981/...
Fine obituary for my friend and colleague, Mary K Gaillard, who contributed greatly to the search for charmed particles and other key aspects of the standard model of particle physics: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Mary Gaillard, Who Broke a Ceiling in Subatomic Research, Dies at 86
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August 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Fine obituary for my friend and colleague, Mary K Gaillard, who contributed greatly to the search for charmed particles and other key aspects of the standard model of particle physics: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
In the footsteps of Galileo’s graduate students
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In the footsteps of Galileo’s graduate students
As a new academic year approaches, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic... for a seminar course or enrichment.
Grace in All Simplicity
An enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world, told through interwoven tales of inspiration, traged...
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July 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
As a new academic year approaches, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic... for a seminar course or enrichment.
When in Florence—I heartily recommend a visit to www.museogalileo.it
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Il Museo Galileo è una delle principali istituzioni internazionali di storia della scienza. Unisce un museo di strumenti scientifici a un istituto dedicato alla ricerca, alla documentazione e alla div...
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July 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
When in Florence—I heartily recommend a visit to www.museogalileo.it
I foresee the next Carl Hiaasen deconstruction of Floridian high culture.
Florida Is Now a Haven for Unproven Stem-Cell Treatments. Story by @emilymullin.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/florid...
Florida Is Now a Haven for Unproven Stem-Cell Treatments
In a measure that flouts the FDA, Florida says doctors can give unapproved stem-cell therapies for wound care, pain management, or orthopedic purposes.
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July 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I foresee the next Carl Hiaasen deconstruction of Floridian high culture.
Intense and worthwhile workshop www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...
July 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Intense and worthwhile workshop www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...