Category: At CERN
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Greece’s first industrial exhibition at CERN
Geneva, 14 October 1997. Greece, one of CERN1‘s founding Member States, inaugurated its first Industrial Exhibition at the Meyrin site on Tuesday, 14 October. After a meeting with CERN’s Director General, Professor Christopher Llewellyn Smith, Professor Emmanuel Frangoulis, the General Secretary of the Greek Ministry of Industry, accompanied by Prof Emmanuel Floratos, Greek delegate to
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New permanent exhibition at CERN
Geneva, 1 September 1997. The work of CERN1, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, is to understand how matter behaves. What are the ultimate constituents of the Universe? Where do they come from? How do they all hold together? These exciting questions have been asked by each successive civilisation and it is the responsibility of
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Council delegates meet at CERN
Geneva, 20 June 1997. The CERN1 Council, where the representatives of the 19 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 108th session today under the chairmanship of Prof. Luciano Maiani (IT). Director General's Report on scientific activities Reporting on the Laboratory's physics programme, the Director-General congratulated staff on
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CERN finds external funding for new antimatter project
Geneva, 10 March 1997. CERN1 will build a new experimental facility, the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) by transforming an existing CERN machine the “Antiproton Collector”, which produces and stores antiprotons into a “all-in-one” machine which can, in addition, decelerate, cool, and eject antiprotons at low energies (5.8 MeV). The transformation will cost about 7 million Swiss
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LHC to be completed in 2005 within reduced CERN Budget envelope
Geneva, 20 December 1996. The CERN1 Council, where the representatives of the 19 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 106th session on 20 December under the chairmanship for the last time of Prof. Hubert Curien (F). Green light for LHC in 2005 Council decided by consensus that
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Italian Minister of Science visits CERN and opens industrial exhibition
Geneva, 19 November 1996. On 19 November 1996 H.E. Professor Luigi Berlinguer, Italy’s Minister for Universities and of Scientific and Technological Research opened the seventh “Italy at CERN* ” exhibition. The Minister was accompanied by Ambassador Giuseppe Baldocci, the Permanent Representative of the Italian Mission in Geneva. CERN’s Director-General, Prof. Christopher Llewellyn Smith welcomed the
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Professor Luciano Maiani is new President of CERN Council
Prof. Luciano Maiani (IT), next President of Council. Geneva, 26 September 1996. The delegates of the CERN1 Council, the body which decides on the scientific programme and financial resources of the Organisation, elected Prof. Luciano Maiani (IT) as the next President of Council. Prof. Maiani was elected for a period of one year and will
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First results from LEP2
Geneva, 10 July 1996. CERN1‘s Large Electron-Positron collider, LEP, produced its first pair of fundamental particles known as W+ and W- today, taking particle physics research into new and unexplored territory. This follows a busy winter of upgrades which have transformed LEP into a new accelerator, earning it the name LEP2. Hundreds of physicists from
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CERN looks forward to exciting future
Geneva, 21 June 1996. The CERN1 Council, where the representatives of the 19 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 104th session today under the chairmanship of Prof. Hubert Curien (F). Director General's Report On Scientific Activities Prof. Christopher Llewellyn Smith, Director General of CERN, reported to Council
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First Czech industrial exhibition at CERN
Geneva, 11 June 1996. On 7 June, Mr Radomir Sabela, Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic together with CERN Director General Prof. Chris Llewellyn Smith formally opened the first ever exhibition of Czech hi-tech companies at CERN1. Mr Sabela stressed that the exhibition will hopefully prove that the Czech Republic, despite