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The centre of gravity for physics today lies squarely on the border of France and Switzerland, where a machine five miles across slams particles together to discover new truths in nature. The Large Hadron Collider at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory, is the biggest, most complex machine ever made and in 2009, Fabiola Gianotti, then 47, took charge of its largest team, the 3,000-strong group that works on the collider’s five-storey Atlas detector. The appointment put her in the top ranks of a profession dominated by men. She came to physics from an education steeped in ancient Greek, philosophy and the history of art – she had also trained as a pianist at the Milan Conservatory. But she ultimately chose physics to answer the big question of why things are as they are. “Physics is, unfortunately, often seen as a male subject; sterile and without charm or emotion,” she told the Cern magazine. “But this is not true, because physics is art, aesthetics, beauty and symmetry.”

Aerial view of Dura Europos