“I think art is what makes us human,” says Dr. Clara Nellist, a particle physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. “Pure scientific curiosity … I compare it to art.”
It’s this human curiosity, this pursuit of art, that drives Dr. Nellist, who helped develop the pixel detector for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC.) In her everyday work, she doesn’t see a demarcation line between art and science. Trying to understand the world around you, just for the sake of understanding it, is art.
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