Fête au Département de la Théorie et remise de cadeau au Professeur Weisskopf

From a reception on 8 December in honour of the departing Director General, Professor Weisskopf, and his wife. The reception was organized by CERN's theoretical physicists, who presented Professor Weisskopf with the first copy of a new book, dedicated to him, called 'Preludes in Theoretical Physics'. The book contains 42 essays by 50 theoretical physicists who have worked at CERN either as staff members or visitors. The essays treat a variety of topics from a mainly intuitive standpoint, trying to go to the heart of a problem without extensive mathematical reasoning — an approach Professor Weisskopf himself masterfully demonstrated throughout his scientific career.