Chris Quigg
@chrisquigg.com
Physicist | Author | Lecturer | Books: Grace in All Simplicity; Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions | Supercollider Physics, Higgsologist | https://chrisquigg.com
In the footsteps of Michael Faraday, master of the public lecture: my "Advice to a Lecturer," lss.fnal.gov/archive/2023...
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
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December 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In the footsteps of Michael Faraday, master of the public lecture: my "Advice to a Lecturer," lss.fnal.gov/archive/2023...
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
For your holiday gift-giving and reading, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic....
Grace in All Simplicity
An enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world, told through interwoven tales of inspiration, traged...
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December 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
For your holiday gift-giving and reading, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic....
Congratulations to Henry Frisch on the publication of his novel treatment of classical mechanics.
Honors Classical Mechanics by Henry J. Frisch is a modern introduction to classical mechanics that allows students to develop confidence, a broad mathematical tool kit, & a correct physical intuition while in a collaborative & supportive environment.
Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Congratulations to Henry Frisch on the publication of his novel treatment of classical mechanics.
In celebration of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (quantum2025.org), A New Year’s Gift for Students and Teachers of Quantum Mechanics doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In celebration of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (quantum2025.org), A New Year’s Gift for Students and Teachers of Quantum Mechanics doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Charming and informative conversation about the origins of USCMS and the LHC Physics Center @fermilab.bsky.social
How did the US become such a big part of CMS?
Learn more about it on our YouTube channel by clicking the link!
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Learn more about it on our YouTube channel by clicking the link!
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How did the US become such a key part of CMS?
YouTube video by CMS Experiment
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December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Charming and informative conversation about the origins of USCMS and the LHC Physics Center @fermilab.bsky.social
2025 Pleasure of Reading
Percival Everett, James
Samantha Harvey, Orbital
David Lodge, The Writing Game
Han Kang, Greek Lessons
Colombe Schneck, La tendresse du crawl
Julian Barnes, Changing My Mind
Gertude Stein, Paris France
Mariah Fredericks, The Wharton Plot
Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story
Percival Everett, James
Samantha Harvey, Orbital
David Lodge, The Writing Game
Han Kang, Greek Lessons
Colombe Schneck, La tendresse du crawl
Julian Barnes, Changing My Mind
Gertude Stein, Paris France
Mariah Fredericks, The Wharton Plot
Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
2025 Pleasure of Reading
Percival Everett, James
Samantha Harvey, Orbital
David Lodge, The Writing Game
Han Kang, Greek Lessons
Colombe Schneck, La tendresse du crawl
Julian Barnes, Changing My Mind
Gertude Stein, Paris France
Mariah Fredericks, The Wharton Plot
Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story
Percival Everett, James
Samantha Harvey, Orbital
David Lodge, The Writing Game
Han Kang, Greek Lessons
Colombe Schneck, La tendresse du crawl
Julian Barnes, Changing My Mind
Gertude Stein, Paris France
Mariah Fredericks, The Wharton Plot
Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story
2025 Notable Reading: Public Life
Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner, How Big Things Get Done
Ronan Farrow, Not a Very Good Murderer
Evan Osnos, To Have and Have Yacht
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom
Jason Stanley, Erasing History
Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner, How Big Things Get Done
Ronan Farrow, Not a Very Good Murderer
Evan Osnos, To Have and Have Yacht
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom
Jason Stanley, Erasing History
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
2025 Notable Reading: Public Life
Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner, How Big Things Get Done
Ronan Farrow, Not a Very Good Murderer
Evan Osnos, To Have and Have Yacht
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom
Jason Stanley, Erasing History
Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner, How Big Things Get Done
Ronan Farrow, Not a Very Good Murderer
Evan Osnos, To Have and Have Yacht
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom
Jason Stanley, Erasing History
2025 Notable Science Reading
Andreas Daum, Alexander von Humboldt
Frank Close, Destroyer of Worlds
Carllo Rovelli, Helgoland
Steven Weinberg, A Life in Physics
Carl Zimmer, Airborne
Alec Nevala-Lee, Collisions
Emily Monosson, Blight
Michael Mann & Peter Hotez, Science under Siege
Andreas Daum, Alexander von Humboldt
Frank Close, Destroyer of Worlds
Carllo Rovelli, Helgoland
Steven Weinberg, A Life in Physics
Carl Zimmer, Airborne
Alec Nevala-Lee, Collisions
Emily Monosson, Blight
Michael Mann & Peter Hotez, Science under Siege
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
2025 Notable Science Reading
Andreas Daum, Alexander von Humboldt
Frank Close, Destroyer of Worlds
Carllo Rovelli, Helgoland
Steven Weinberg, A Life in Physics
Carl Zimmer, Airborne
Alec Nevala-Lee, Collisions
Emily Monosson, Blight
Michael Mann & Peter Hotez, Science under Siege
Andreas Daum, Alexander von Humboldt
Frank Close, Destroyer of Worlds
Carllo Rovelli, Helgoland
Steven Weinberg, A Life in Physics
Carl Zimmer, Airborne
Alec Nevala-Lee, Collisions
Emily Monosson, Blight
Michael Mann & Peter Hotez, Science under Siege
RIP Bill Bardeen, superb theorist and exemplary colleague.
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
RIP Bill Bardeen, superb theorist and exemplary colleague.
Digital editions of Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions 30% off at press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
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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November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Digital editions of Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions 30% off at press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
Slides indico.cern.ch/event/148089... and video cds.cern.ch/record/2948480 for my keynote address, "From the November Revolution toward the Millennium: Discoveries, Insights, Tools," at the Fourth International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics
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November 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Slides indico.cern.ch/event/148089... and video cds.cern.ch/record/2948480 for my keynote address, "From the November Revolution toward the Millennium: Discoveries, Insights, Tools," at the Fourth International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics
Many excellent presentations and conversations this week @cern.bsky.social for the 4th Intl Symposium on the History of Particle Physics: indico.cern.ch/event/148089...
4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics
Dedicated to the memory of Herwig Schopper 1924-2025 Following in the mould established by precursors at Fermilab and SLAC, the 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics will brin...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Many excellent presentations and conversations this week @cern.bsky.social for the 4th Intl Symposium on the History of Particle Physics: indico.cern.ch/event/148089...
An exemplary recipient!
Huge congratulations to former CMS Spokesperson Joel Butler, recipient of the 2026 APS Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics! 👏
➡ Read more: cms.cern/news/cms-phy...
➡ Read more: cms.cern/news/cms-phy...
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
An exemplary recipient!
And who was Marietta Blau? A pioneer of the emulsion method. bit.ly/GraceSimplic... pp. 70–
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
And who was Marietta Blau? A pioneer of the emulsion method. bit.ly/GraceSimplic... pp. 70–
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.
October 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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October 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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-...
I hope that arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348 will be of broad interest.
Perspectives and Questions: Toward an Expansive Agenda for Particle Physics
Global celebration greeted the 2012 discovery at CERN's Large Hadron Collider of a particle that matches the textbook description of the Higgs boson. That achievement validated a remarkable chain of t...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I hope that arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348 will be of broad interest.
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.
October 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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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October 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"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...
September 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
And here is Dan Freedman's original preprint: lss.fnal.gov/archive/1973...
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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September 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
And do read "On Freedom," a challenging and inspiring work!
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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September 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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...