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CERN has been officially notified that the remaining steps for the entry into force of Latvia's Associate Membership have been completed
Thirty years ago today, the Polish flag flew alongside those of CERN’s other Member States for the first time
Representatives of CERN and of the Republic of Latvia signed an Agreement today admitting Latvia as a CERN Associate Member State
This week marks the 50th anniversary of collisions in CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings, the first hadron collider ever built
A colloquium on 25 November will celebrate the anniversary of CERN’s oldest accelerator
CERN hosts unveiling of a plaque recalling the history of a building in Berlin now owned by the CERN Pension Fund
Ten years ago, protons circulated CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time, marking the end of years of design and construction