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The path to high-energy electron-positron colliders: from Wideroe's betatron to Touschek's AdA and to LEP
Giulia Pancheri, Luisa Bonolis
We describe the road which led to the construction and exploitation of electron positron colliders, hightlighting how the young physics student Bruno Touschek met the Norwegian eng…
The Charm of Theoretical Physics (1958-1993)
Luciano Maiani, Luisa Bonolis
Personal recollections on theoretical particle physics in the years when the Standard Theory was formed. In the background, the remarkable development of Italian theoretical physic…
The LHC Timeline: A personal recollection (1980-2012). Oral History Interview
Luciano Maiani, Luisa Bonolis
The object of this interview is the history of the Large Hadron Collider in the LEP tunnel at CERN, from first ideas to the discovery of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson, seen from th…
Stellar structure and compact objects before 1940: Towards relativistic astrophysics
Luisa Bonolis
Since the mid-1920s, different strands of research used stars as "physics laboratories" for investigating the nature of matter under extreme densities and pressures, impossible to…
A Life in Statistical Mechanics. Part 1: From Chedar in Taceva, to Yeshiva University in New York
Joel Lebowitz, Luisa Bonolis
This is the first part of an oral history interview on the lifelong involvement of Joel Lebowitz in the development of statistical mechanics. Here the covered topics include the fo…