Read article: Helen Edwards: pioneer of Fermilab’s Tevatron
Helen Edwards was a formidable force in the field of accelerator science. Anita Chandran finds out more about her contributions to particle physics
Read article: Lia Merminga: directing the future of Fermilab
Lia Merminga, director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the US, on accelerator science, the future of particle physics and being the first woman in her new role
Read article: Eileen Collins, NASA astronaut: commanding missions and making history
Andrew Glester reviews Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: the Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission by Eileen M Collins with Jonathan H Ward
Read article: Nobel-prize-winning nuclear physicist Ben Roy Mottelson dies aged 95
Mottelson determined that certain nuclei could have asymmetrical shapes
Read article: Fusion community mourns death of ITER boss Bernard Bigot aged 72
ITER deputy director Eisuke Tada takes over the French-based fusion project while the ITER Council searches for a long-term successor
Read article: Lia Merminga becomes first woman to head Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Merminga will begin her term on 18 April and succeeds Nigel Lockyer
Read article: Mildred Dresselhaus: a giant of nanoscience
Jess Wade reviews Carbon Queen: the Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus by Maia Weinstock
Read article: Off the beaten track: from school straight to working on the national physical standards
Laura Hiscott speaks to Perdi Potgieter, a research scientist at NPL who left school at 16 to do an apprenticeship
Read article: Ask me anything: Donna Strickland – ‘I wouldn’t have wanted to know that I would win a Nobel prize’
Donna Strickland shared the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for her work developing the technique of “chirped pulse amplification”
Read article: A most improbable physicist: how Hakeem Oluseyi survived a troubled early life and went on to succeed in physics
David Appell reviews A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz
