Chris Quigg
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Physicist | Author | Lecturer | Books: Grace in All Simplicity; Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions | Supercollider Physics, Higgsologist | https://chrisquigg.com
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Yang's wide-ranging work combined penetrating physical intuition with mathematical virtuosity. It was a treat to think with him. At Stony Brook, his generosity was decisive for my growth as a scientist.
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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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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And here is Dan Freedman's original preprint: lss.fnal.gov/archive/1973...
Thanks to @sc.edu physics for an excellent visit and lively colloquium audience!
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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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In the footsteps of Galileo’s graduate students