2018

On 2 December, the second running period of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has come to an end. The most recent scientific highlight during that period was the observation of the decay of the Higgs boson into a pair of bottom quarks. ETH physicists had a leading role in obtaining this landmark result.

On the recommendation of ETH President Lino Guzzella, the ETH Board has appointed 12 new ETH professors, among them the two physicists Lavinia Heisenberg and Daniela Rupp. Notably in this round of appointments is the high proportion of women, more than 40 percent.

On the occasion of its "R Aquarii Week", the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shows the sharpest image of the symbiotic binary star ever taken. It was recorded by a team around ETH physicist Hans Martin Schmid.  

In collaboration with the Department of Physics of ETH Zurich, SRF mySchool produced five videos in German with amazing experiments: «Einfach Physik!»

ETH researchers had excellent results in the issuing of ERC grants: they were awarded 10 Consolidator Grants in the amount of 24 million Swiss francs for their research. Among the grantees are the three physicists Paolo Crivelli, Christian Degen and Jonathan Home.