LHC INAUGURATION, LHC Fest highlights: exhibition time!
David Gross, one of the twenty-one Nobel Laureates who have participated in the project.
Tuesday 21 October 2008
Accelerating Nobels
Colliding Charm, Atomic Cuisine, The Good Anomaly, A Quark Somewhere on the White Paper, Wire Proliferation, A Tale of Two Liquids … these are just some of the titles given to artworks by Physics Nobel Laureates who agreed to make drawings of their prize-winning discoveries (more or less reluctantly) during a special photo session. Science photographer Volker Steger made portraits of Physics Nobel Laureates and before the photo sessions he asked them to make a drawing of their most important discovery. The result is "Accelerating Nobels", an exhibition that combines unusual portraits of and original drawings by twenty-one Nobel laureates in physics whose work is closely related to CERN and the LHC.
This exhibition will be one of the highlights of the LHC celebrations on 21 October in the SM18 hall but it will also be previewed in the Globe of Science and Innovation from 16 September to 11 October ( Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 2.00 p.m to 5.30 p.m. and Saturdays from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.)
Game
Have fun matching the names of the Nobels (numbers) in the exhibition with the titles (letters) of their artwork ! The solution will be published in the next issue.
Nobel Laureates :
- 1.Georg Bednorz
- 2.Georges Charpak
- 3.Donald Glaser
- 4.Roy Glauber
- 5.David Gross
- 6.John Hall
- 7.Theodor Hänsch
- 8.Anthony Leggett
- 9.Douglas Osheroff
- 10.Martin Perl
- 11.Robert Richardson
- 12.Burt Richter
- 13.Carlo Rubbia
- 14.George Smoot
- 15.Jack Steinberger
- 16.Gerard ‘t Hooft
- 17.Richard Taylor
- 18.Sam Ting
- 19.Simon van der Meer
- 20.Martinus Veltman
- 21. Kurt Wüthrich.
Titles of their works:
- A. The Bubble Chamber
- B. Colliding Charm
- C. The Narrow Resonance of the J-Psi
- D. Atomic Cuisine
- E. Stochastic Cooling
- F. High Temperature Superconductivity
- G. The Good Anomaly
- H. A Quark Somewhere on the White Paper
- I. Wire Proliferation
- J. The Tau of Particle Physics
- K. A Tale Of Two Liquids
- L. Superfluid Properties
- M. Taming Infinities
- N. Homo Diagrammaticus
- O. NMR Spectroscopy
- P. Understanding Superfluidity
- Q. The Asymptotic Freedom of the Quark
- R. Coherent States
- S. Gauging Frequencies
- T. Optical Frequency
- U. The Universe in One Drawing.
LHC exhibition in SM18
The SM18 Hall, where thousands of superconducting magnets for the LHC have been assembled and tested at 1.9 K in the past few years, will host a special exhibition to give the official delegations and the invited public a taste of the LHC adventure. All the technologies that were put together in the LHC will be illustrated in "large format" and explained live from the twelve test benches and the cryogenics, vacuum and RF installations. A 1-to-1 model of the LHC tunnel made with real dipoles will be the central attraction and four "corners" will be devoted to the LHC experiments, displaying some of their most beautiful detector prototypes, alongside their latest videos, pictures and - hopefully! - collision event displays. A CERN favourite, the GRID cafe’, will also be available. The exhibition will be kept in the Hall as a permanent attraction for the public visiting CERN.
