On the ETH Day in 2013, Felicitas Pauss held a speech as President of the Lecturers’ Conference. (Photo: Giulia Marthaler / ETH Zurich)
As Professor of Particle Physics, Felicitas Pauss played a key role in the discovery of the Higgs boson. Tomorrow, she will be honoured with the Richard Ernst Medal. If it had been up to her parents, she would have become a musician. But Felicitas Pauss had other plans: "Already as a child, I was interested in technology," says the Austrian-born scientist. "So when I started high school and got my first glimpse inside the fascinating world of the atom, I knew there was no way I was going to pursue an artistic career." - Involved in two important discoveries . Since then, Pauss has wanted to know the inmost force which binds the world together. As one of the leaders of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, the ETH Professor Emeritus played a key role in proving the experimental evidence for the existence of the famous Higgs particle.
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