CMS – The Art of Science

The physicist as artist: Michael Hoch photographed the extraordinary science cabinet of wonders CMS (the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment) at CERN. With a foreword by François Englert, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physics and co-discoverer of the Higgs boson.

Michael Hoch
Daniel Denegri
François Englert
Stephen Preece
Ian Shipsey
Mick Storr

27 × 27 cm
168 pages
921 photos
English
Hardcover, bound in linen,
„French Fold“-jacket
ISBN 978-3-903101-04-3

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Authors

  • Daniel Denegri

    Daniel Denegri is a Franco-Croatian physicist. He is one of the founding fathers of CMS and was CMS physics coordinator [...] more

  • François Englert

    François Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist and was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Peter Higgs [...] more

  • Ian Shipsey

    Ian Shipsey is an British-American particle physicist. He builds silicon cameras that view the Universe in new ways: a recent [...] more

  • Michael Hoch

    Michael Hoch is an Austrian born scientist, photographer, artist and founder of art@CMS. He studied applied physics as well as [...] more

  • Mick Storr

    Mick Storr is a British physicist and educational specialist and worked as physicist at CERN on various scientific projects. Co-founder [...] more

  • Stephen Preece

    Stephen Preece is a British-Swiss artist and art teacher based in Geneva. His career objective as a teacher has been [...] more

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CMS (the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment) is a scientific apparatus five stories high and 25 m in length, which measures the sub-atomic fragments of the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) collisions at CERN to unravel the laws of nature in its tiniest components. In this sense, CMS and LHC form the largest and strongest microscope on earth ever created by man. Michael Hoch takes advantage of his privileged position as scientist and artist ‘at the heart of the experiment’ to get as close to the essence and aesthetics of this machine as only someone with this dual approach can. The Art of Science is also a tribute to the 10.000+ men and women – technicians, scientists and engineers – who made this modern marvel possible. An extraordinary visual document, with specialist texts by four of Michael Hoch’s colleagues and a foreword by François Englert, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physics and co-discoverer of the Higgs boson.

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CMS (the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment) is a scientific apparatus five stories high and 25 m in length, which measures the sub-atomic fragments of the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) collisions at CERN to unravel the laws of nature in its tiniest components. In this sense, CMS and LHC form the largest and strongest microscope on earth ever created by man. Michael Hoch takes advantage of his privileged position as scientist and artist ‘at the heart of the experiment’ to get as close to the essence and aesthetics of this machine as only someone with this dual approach can. The Art of Science is also a tribute to the 10.000+ men and women – technicians, scientists and engineers – who made this modern marvel possible. An extraordinary visual document, with specialist texts by four of Michael Hoch’s colleagues and a foreword by François Englert, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physics and co-discoverer of the Higgs boson.

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