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The discovery of the Higgs boson isn't like the average record listet in the Guiness Book of Records. Normally achievements listet in the book can be exceeded. Because of its scientific significance the discovery of the 'God Particle' was included in…

Preparations for the new Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN have begun. The AWAKE team at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich is preparing to move both equipment and know-how to CERN.

Our admired and esteemed colleague, Dr. Eckart Lorenz, passed away unexpectedly in Berlin on June 21, 2014. After a very successful career in particle physics, Eckart Lorenz was for many years the leader for the HEGRA and MAGIC projects at our…

Special Colloquium: Teilchen, Thesen und Temperamente - Einblicke in Forschungsprojekte am Max-Planck-Institut für Physik 3rd June 2014

Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bethke presents the popular scientific lecture: "Particles, Theses, and Temperaments -…

Hans-Peter Dürr, emeritiertes Wissenschaftliches Mitglied, langjähriger Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) und Träger des Alternativen Nobelpreises verstarb am 18. Mai 2014 im Alter von 84 Jahren in München.

On May 6th 2014 the Swimming Science Center MS Wissenschaft begins its tour through 38 german and austrian cities starting with Berlin. The Max-Planck-Institut für Physik is represented with two exponats.

It is a unique opportunity for high school students: during International Masterclasses they can hunt for evidence of particles in authentic data from experiments in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most advanced and most energetic particle…

German Federal President Joachim Gauck visited the European research laboratory during his stay in the Swiss Confederation. With his visit the celebration of CERN's 60th birthday begin. The festivities follow the motto "60 Years of Science for…

In the beginning of 1991 CERN released an early version of the WWW for the physics community. At the end of the same year the first web server went online. Today more than 1 billion people use the internet worldwide. Weltmaschine.de concludes:…