Christine Sutton
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Christine Sutton is a particle physicist who has edited the CERN Courier since 2003. She retired from CERN in 2015, consequently stepping down from her position as editor of the magazine.[1]
Sutton was previously based at the University of Oxford, working in the Particle Physics Group and tutoring physics at St Catherine's College.[2]
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.[3]
She also contributed to the 2007 Encyclopædia Britannica, with 24 articles on particle physics:[4]
- Argonne National Laboratory (Micropædia article)
- Colliding-Beam Storage Ring (Micropædia article)
- DESY (Micropædia article)
- Electroweak theory (Micropædia article)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Micropædia article)
- Feynman diagram (Micropædia article)
- Flavour (Micropædia article)
- Gluon (Micropædia article)
- Higgs particle (Micropædia article)
- Linear accelerator (Micropædia article)
- Particle accelerators (in part, Macropædia article)
- Quantum chromodynamics (Micropædia article)
- Renormalization (Micropædia article)
- SLAC (Micropædia article)
- Standard model (Micropædia article)
- Strong nuclear force (Micropædia article)
- Subatomic particles (Macropædia article)
- Supergravity (Micropædia article)
- Superstring theory (Micropædia article)
- Supersymmetry (Micropædia article)
- Tau (Micropædia article)
- Unified field theory (Micropædia article)
- Weak nuclear force (Micropædia article)
- Z particle (Micropædia article)
Sutton is also an active cyclist, regularly completing charity events of up to 100 miles.
