On 18 March 2015, at a ceremony at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, the L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO presented the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award to five outstanding women scientists. Moroccan physicist Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli – who contributed to the simulation and construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter in the ATLAS detector – is...Read More
The First Winter School of High Energy Physics in Palestine (WISHEPP) will be held from November 13th to November 17th, 2016 in the Physics department, New Campus, An-Najah National University, Nablus (Palestine). This school is the initiative of two young Palestinian researchers that obtained their doctorate degree in High Energy Physics (Soleil, LAL et CERN)...Read More
An article published on November 11, 2018 in the newspaper Le Temps speaks about the new initiative of Robert Klapisch, the president of our foundation. Robert Klapisch, a former research director at CERN, wants to demonstrate the viability of superconductivity as a means of energy transport. He plans to build an 18-kilometer test bed in...Read More
Robert Klapisch passed away on 21 March 2020, to the immense sadness of those who knew and loved him. Our thoughts are with his family, particularly his three children, Coline, Cédric and Marianne. Robert was a tireless worker, not only passionate about the field of fundamental physics, covering both nuclear and particle physics, but also...Read More