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Bruno Touschek: the physicist who escaped the Nazi Holocaust to build particle colliders

23 May 2024

Bruno Touschek was an Austrian-born theoretical physicist who proposed what became the world’s first circular particle collider. But as Giulia Pancheri describes, few colleagues were aware of a dark past, which saw him work on a “death-ray” device for the Nazi military

Man of many talents Bruno Touschek pictured in 1955, a decade after escaping death in Germany. By th

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Giulia Pancheri is a retired particle physicist at the INFN Frascati National Laboratory in Italy and author of Bruno Touschek’s Extraordinary Journey: From Death Rays to Antimatter (Springer 2022)
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