Behind the Facades of Anniversaries

Anniversaries for particle physics.

his month and next month mark two important anniversaries in the field of particle physics— the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Fermilab (the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, just outside of Chicago, Illinois) and the 5th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland). These two institutions have been unite...

Anniversaries and attitudes.

Editorial—some anniversaries

The year 1996 has been of some anniversary import in the field of epilepsy. The British Branch of the International League Against Epilepsy celebrated its Diamond Jubilee meeting in May, having been founded in 1936. The 60 years of its existence have seen a lot of changes. The Branch seems to have started almost as a private club for a few doctors with an interest in epilepsy to read papers to ...

Anniversaries and Issues

Background: Medicine usage in Parkinson's disease patients is often imperfect, in particular irregular timing of medication. The effect of informing Parkinson's disease patients about the continuous dopaminergic hypothesis (to encourage regular medicine intake) on medication adherence and motor control was tested. Methods: Patients were randomised either to the active group (receiving the inter...

Darwin anniversaries come home

It was an event one hundred years ago: the centenary of Charles Darwin's birth was marked widely, no more so than by one of Germany's most famous biologists, Ernst Haeckel. He delivered an address at the University of Jena celebrating Darwin as one of the last events before he retired. Another century on and many institutions worldwide have celebrations under way this year to mark 200 years sin...