What is Quantum Diaries?
Quantum Diaries is a Web site that follows physicists from around the world as they experience the World Year of Physics 2005. Through their bios, videos, photos, and blogs, the diarists offer a personal look at the daily lives of particle physicists.

This project is not just about physics; it's about being a physicist. That means that the diarists write about their families, hobbies, and interests, as well as their latest research findings and the challenges that face them in their labs.

Quantum Diaries aims to put a face -- many faces, in fact -- on physics in 2005. The diarists represent a vibrant cross-section of working physicists today. They speak nine languages and are from fifteen countries. Outside of the lab, they are jazz musicians, mothers and fathers, amateur astronomers, photographers and athletes. At work, they are project leaders, graduate students, experimentalists, and theorists.

Will 2005 be like 1905, the year that Einstein changed the world by changing our understanding of the universe? You can celebrate the World Year of Physics by watching it unfold through the eyes of the diarists of Quantum Diaries.

[Editor's note: Quantum Diaries ended in early January 2006. Please visit our archives to relive the World Year of Physics through the eyes of the Quantum Diarists.]

Who runs Quantum Diaries?
Quantum Diaries gets its support from particle physics laboratories around the world through the InterAction Collaboration, whose mission is to support the science of particle physics and set visible footprints for peaceful collaboration across all borders.