Christine Sutton


Christine Sutton is a particle physicist who edited the CERN Courier from 2003 to 2015. She retired from CERN in 2015.
Sutton was previously based at the University of Oxford, working in the Particle Physics Group and tutoring physics at St Catherine's College.
She was Physical Sciences Editor for New Scientist magazine in the early 1980s, and has authored several non-fiction science books, most recently The Particle Odyssey.

Contributions to ''Encyclopædia Britannica''

She also contributed to the 2007 Encyclopædia Britannica, with 24 articles on particle physics:
  1. Argonne National Laboratory
  2. Colliding-Beam Storage Ring
  3. DESY
  4. Electroweak theory
  5. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  6. Feynman diagram
  7. Flavour
  8. Gluon
  9. Higgs particle
  10. Linear accelerator
  11. Particle accelerators
  12. Quantum chromodynamics
  13. Renormalization
  14. SLAC
  15. Standard model
  16. Strong nuclear force
  17. Subatomic particles
  18. Supergravity
  19. Superstring theory
  20. Supersymmetry
  21. Tau
  22. Unified field theory
  23. Weak nuclear force
  24. Z particle

    Personal life

Sutton is an active cyclist, regularly completing charity events of up to 100 miles.