Christine Sutton

Christine Sutton is a particle physicist who edited the CERN Courier from 2003 to 2015.^[1] She retired from CERN in 2015.^[2]

Christine Sutton
Known for	CERN Courier
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	CERN University of Oxford New Scientist
Website	home.cern/authors/christine-sutton

Sutton was previously based at the University of Oxford, working in the Particle Physics Group and tutoring physics at St Catherine's College.^[3]

She was Physical Sciences Editor for New Scientist magazine in the early 1980s, and has authored several non-fiction science books, most recently (with Frank Close and Michael Marten) The Particle Odyssey (1987, 2002).^[4]

Contributions to Encyclopædia Britannica

She also contributed to the 2007 Encyclopædia Britannica, with 24 articles on particle physics:^[5]

1. Argonne National Laboratory (Micropædia article)
2. Colliding-Beam Storage Ring (Micropædia article)
3. DESY (Micropædia article)
4. Electroweak theory (Micropædia article)
5. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Micropædia article)
6. Feynman diagram (Micropædia article)
7. Flavour (Micropædia article)
8. Gluon (Micropædia article)
9. Higgs particle (Micropædia article)
10. Linear accelerator (Micropædia article)
11. Particle accelerators (in part, Macropædia article)
12. Quantum chromodynamics (Micropædia article)
13. Renormalization (Micropædia article)
14. SLAC (Micropædia article)
15. Standard model (Micropædia article)
16. Strong nuclear force (Micropædia article)
17. Subatomic particles (Macropædia article)
18. Supergravity (Micropædia article)
19. Superstring theory (Micropædia article)
20. Supersymmetry (Micropædia article)
21. Tau (Micropædia article)
22. Unified field theory (Micropædia article)
23. Weak nuclear force (Micropædia article)
24. Z particle (Micropædia article)

References

1. "So, farewell then". 25 September 2015.
2. "Our Team". cerncourier.com.
3. "Chris Sutton's home page". Archived from the original on 2013-04-19. Retrieved 2007-01-12.
4. Martin Redfern, BBC Radio Science Unit (Nov 1, 2002). "Bookshelf". CERN Courier. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
5. Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. Propædia, volume 30. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2007. p. 547.

External links

• Sutton, Christine (2015). "One century of cosmic rays – A particle physicist's view". EPJ Web of Conferences. 105: 00001. Bibcode:2015EPJWC.10500001S. doi:10.1051/epjconf/201510500001.