The French edition was published under the title Courrier CERN : Revue internationale de la physique des hautes énergies.
The first editor, Roger Anthoine, started CERN Courier with an initial print run of 1000, and by the time he had to put it on hold, little more than a year later, the number had already risen to 3000.
[3] In addition to news and events, CERN Courier will often present cover pieces on influential physicists or retrospectives of significant historical moments in high-energy-physics history.
Book reviews, white papers, obituaries, and product releases are also featured in the magazine.
The CERN Courier has been published regularly since the start, apart from the period April 1960 to January 1962 when the magazine "hibernated" owing to unfortunate circumstances.
The 50th anniversary of the first publication of the
CERN Courier
provided the opportunity for a modest celebration on 2 September 2009. All six of the principal editors that the magazine has had over its 50 years met together for the first time. After getting acquainted and re-acquainted over lunch, they gathered in the library at CERN to answer questions about producing the magazine over the years. From right to left: Roger Anthoine, Alec Hester, Brian Southworth, Gordon Fraser, James Gillies and Christine Sutton.
Resplendent in CERN 25th anniversary T-shirts — the
CERN Courier
team. In the album one can see Henri-Luc Felder, editor who took care of the French edition, Monika Wilson who looked after journal distribution and other administrative matters, Brian Southworth Editor, Micheline Falciola, responsible for the advertisement pages and liaison with the printers, and Gordon Fraser, editor who took care of production of the English edition and who wrote most of the high energy physics articles.
