Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 26/09/2026Toasting Peter Higgs with his treasured London Pride (in Ramsgate, Kent)! 070
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 25/09/2026On an overnight stop in Walmer/Deal (Kent, UK) this reminder of the DESY collider that gave evidence for the gluon’s reality. 010
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 24/09/2026I am sad to report that a formidable colleague, Ken Lane (Boston U), has died. Ken made many notable contributions, among them his work on the Cornell charmonium model, dynamical symmetry breaking in the form of extended technicolor, and supercollider physics. He shared the 2011 Sakurai Prize. RIP! 083
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 22/09/2026Congratulations to the new CMS leadership team and best wishes to the Collaboration for the march toward HL-LHC! cms.cern/index.php/ne...cms.cernCMS Welcomes New Deputy Spokesperson for 2026-2028 | CMS Experiment 000
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 19/09/2026Crossing The Pond for Season XXV of village-to-village hiking, exceptionally this year in Kent, UK. 001
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 16/09/2026You can listen to the audiobook Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs boson and New Laws of Nature (by Bob Cahn and me) on Audible, Spotify, etc., or for free with a library card on Hoopla. 010
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 12/09/2026An excellent plan to create a visitor centre honoring JCM. Will support in memory of J. D. Jackson, Master of Classical Electrodynamics. 110
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 21/08/2026As a new academic year approaches, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic... for a seminar course in particle physics or enrichment.bit.lyGrace in All SimplicityAn enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world, told through interwoven tales of inspiration, traged... 020
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 18/08/2026Available today on your favorite audio platform! rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...rbmediaglobal.comRBmedia | Grace in All SimplicityListen to the audiobook Grace in All Simplicity, written by Robert N. Cahn;Chris Quigg, narrated by Brian Troxell. 010
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 12/08/2026One week away: audiobook version of Grace in All Simplicity. rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...rbmediaglobal.comRBmedia | Grace in All SimplicityListen to the audiobook Grace in All Simplicity, written by Robert N. Cahn;Chris Quigg, narrated by Brian Troxell. 020
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 31/07/2026Applications open now for the Winter 2027 session of the US Particle Accelerator School: uspas.fnal.gov/programs/202...uspas.fnal.gov 011
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 25/07/2026Only a matter of time before Sean returns to Villanova to put Philly on the map! 020
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 20/07/2026DPF2026 at Fermilab is a beehive of activity! Slides at indico.fnal.gov/event/72820/...indico.fnal.govDivision of Particles and Fields 2026The Division of Particles & Fields is holding a meeting on July 20-24, 2026 at Fermilab. It's this year’s largest gathering of the U.S. particle physics community, featuring a program of plenary and ... 011
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 17/07/2026For your summer reading pleasure: pegasusbooks.com/books/grace-... Audiobook coming August 18 rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...rbmediaglobal.comRBmedia | Grace in All SimplicityListen to the audiobook Grace in All Simplicity, written by Robert N. Cahn;Chris Quigg, narrated by Brian Troxell. 000
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 09/07/2026Today, riders of the Tour de France passed near Boulevard de l'Hypéron in Bagnères-de-Bigorre and close to the Observatoire du Pic du Midi (above le col du Tourmalet). 010
Reposted by Chris QuiggChris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 04/07/2025Music for Independence Day, by American composer Charles Ives (originally for organ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yh...youtube.comUMich Symphony Band - Charles Ives - Variations on "America" (1892)YouTube video by umsymphonyband 011
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 04/07/2026Happy Fourth of July! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/...poetryfoundation.orgThe New ColossusNot like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman… 010
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 04/07/2026Happy 14th birthday to the Higgs Boson! Much more to learn arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348arxiv.orgPerspectives and Questions: Toward an Expansive Agenda for Particle PhysicsGlobal 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... 011
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 22/06/2026RIP François Englert, who illuminated the science of spontaneously broken gauge symmetries: arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0...arxiv.org 0217
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 11/06/2026Extraordinary progress reported at FCC Week 2026 in Helsinki, indico.cern.ch/event/155212.... Excellent work on many fronts!indico.cern.chFCC Week 2026We are delighted to announce the twelfth edition of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Conference. FCC Week 2026 will take place in Helsinki, Finland, from 8 to 12 June 2026, at the University of Hels... 000
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 09/06/2026Final day of the @princetonupress.bsky.social 50% off sale for Gauge Theories press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... and many fine books!press.princeton.eduGauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic InteractionsA thoroughly revised edition of a landmark textbook on gauge theories and their applications to particle physics 042
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 03/06/2026Another fine bit of spectroscopy from @lhcb.bsky.social! Much exploration remains, including baryons containing (bc) and (bb). Weight diagrams below from Les Houches 1981, before we learned that top is so heavy and fleeting. 050
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 01/06/2026Grace in All Simplicity Audiobook to be released August 18, now available for preorder from your favorite provider. 010
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 19/05/2026Congratulations to ATLAS for this fiendishly difficult observation! 040
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 11/05/2026Not too late to register for the 2026 edition of the International Neutrino Summer School at UC Santa Barbara from June 29 to July 10 indico.global/event/16507/...indico.global17th International Neutrino Summer School 2026We are looking forward to hosting the 2026 edition of the International Neutrino Summer School at UC Santa Barbara from June 29 to July 10. The school will cover topics spanning theoretical and experi... 061
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 04/05/2026Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions is half price during the Princeton Press spring sale: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...press.princeton.eduGauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic InteractionsA thoroughly revised edition of a landmark textbook on gauge theories and their applications to particle physics 030
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 03/05/2026Today is World Press Freedom Day www.un.org/en/observanc.... I am privileged to have journalists in my family.un.orgWorld Press Freedom Day - EN | United Nationsthe purpose of the day is to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom, assess the state of press freedom throughout the world, defend the media from attacks on their independence and pay ... 010
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 02/05/2026For Korean friends and colleagues: youtu.be/BShDsOnKq_Uyoutu.be자연은 왜 이토록 단순하면서도 아름다운가 _ 로버트 칸,크리스 퀴그, 알에이치코리아 _ 물리학 과학 #책 프리뷰YouTube video by 인디캣책곳간 010
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 26/04/2026www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgTrump fires NSF's oversight boardDismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence 020
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 23/04/2026Today is World Book and Copyright Day! Read a book. Respect the creators. www.unesco.org/en/days/worl...unesco.orgWorld Book and Copyright Day23 April 000
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 20/04/2026Over decades,groups at CERN, Brookhaven, and Fermilab have mounted dedicated experiments to determine the muon's magnetic moment, made key inventions, assiduously reduced systematic uncertainties, and stimulated deeper theoretical understanding. breakthroughprize.org/News/98breakthroughprize.org Breakthrough Prize – Breakthrough Prize Announces 2026 Laureates 051
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 17/04/2026I'm delighted to announce that rhkorea_books has just published the Korean edition of Grace in All Simplicity blog.naver.com/randomhouse1... 020
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 06/04/2026Two books for our time: Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday / Die Welt von Gestern; W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz. 020
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 31/03/2026My wide-ranging conversation with CERN's Panos Charitos: ep-news.web.cern.ch/content/chri...ep-news.web.cern.chChris Quigg: Grace in All Simplicity and the Unfinished Business of the Standard ModelPanos Charitos: More than half a century has passed since the “November Revolution” — the 1974 discovery of the J/ψ that reshaped particle physics. In your recent keynote, you revisited that moment. W... 052
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 30/03/2026eBook version is currently available at a favorable price: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grace-...simonandschuster.comGrace in All SimplicityAn enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world, told through interwoven tales of inspiration, traged... 120
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 18/03/2026Congratulations Joel Butler, @apsphysics.bsky.social W.K.H. Panofsky Prizewinner in Experimental Particle Physics for exceptional leadership in heavy-flavor experiments at Fermilab and @cmsexperiment.bsky.social @cern.bsky.social 031
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 17/03/2026Willis Lamb Nobel Lecture, 1955: "I have heard it said that «the finder of a new elementary particle used to be rewarded by a Nobel Prize, but such a discovery now ought to be punished by a $10,000 [now $121,400] fine»". But I celebrate with LHCb. More doubly heavy baryons! Long live spectroscopy! 153
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 16/03/202630% discount on press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... until 15 April with code EVH30.press.princeton.eduGauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic InteractionsA thoroughly revised edition of a landmark textbook on gauge theories and their applications to particle physics 000
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 17/02/2026Students and young postdocs—Apply by April 1 for the Summer Session of the US Particle Accelerator School uspas.fnal.gov/programs/202...uspas.fnal.gov 000
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 27/01/2026Many informative talks at the 60th Anniversary Conference of the Rencontres de Moriond moriond.in2p3.fr/60years/agen...moriond.in2p3.frAgenda 000
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 18/01/2026Action photo of my after-dinner talk at the Restaurant du Sénat, Paris, celebrating 60 years of the Rencontres de Moriond 060
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 10/01/2026Third- and fourth-year undergraduates: apply by 31 January for the DESY Summer Student Program, www.desy.de/f/students/2...desy.de 000
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 23/12/2025In the footsteps of Michael Faraday, master of the public lecture: my "Advice to a Lecturer," lss.fnal.gov/archive/2023... Happy Holidays!lss.fnal.gov 021
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 20/12/2025For your holiday gift-giving and reading, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic....bit.lyGrace in All SimplicityAn enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world, told through interwoven tales of inspiration, traged... 010
Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 18/12/2025Congratulations to Henry Frisch on the publication of his novel treatment of classical mechanics. 031