The Women who run the biggest machine ever built by Man
or
The complexity of LHC and the women in charge of it
Talking about today's Physics and tomorrow's Society
by ELISABETTA DURANTE, scientific journalist
DISTI, ITWIIN, UGIS
Pictures by MIKE STRUIK (CERN)
Thanks for the collaboration to
Roberta ANTOLINI - INFN
Paola CATAPANO
and Manuela CIRILLI - CERN
Antonella REGANO - CENTRO FERMI
Franco Buttiglione - Fotocine Meridionale
Supported by
Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare INFN and Department of Physics of Bari
Thanks to:
CERN EPS, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
Introduction:
LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is the biggest and most complex scientific tool the man ever had at his disposal. The new powerful particle accelerator will reproduce in a lab the state of matter present in the Universe of 14 billions ago, few instants after the Big Bang. Thousands of scientists from 80 countries in the world are partecipating to this great adventure: but LHC is first of all a great result of the European research and, in particular, of the italian Physics and INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare). The exhibition shows the portraits of italian women researchers, who have given important contribution to this challenge, which is scientific as well as technological: the project has already led, in fact, to many progresses and is expected to have an important effect on several socio-economic fields, like energy, health, environment, computer science, electronics. The faces and the stories of these women tell one of the most fascinating human adventure: an account addressed above all to young people, who is generally unaware of living in a wonderfull age.
Distretto dell'Informazione Scientifica e Tecnologica
To book an exhibition, contact: disti@ba.infn.it
