Category: At CERN
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CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
Geneva 8 October 2013. CERN1 congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel Prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by
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CERN’s CLOUD experiment shines new light on climate change
Geneva, 6 October 2013. In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the CLOUD experiment at CERN1 reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols – tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the air – form in the atmosphere, and which gases are responsible? This is
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CERN welcomes its first film maker in residence
Geneva, 4 October 2013. Seeing the invisible and discovering the meaning of life are the twin quests of CERN1’s first film maker in residence, Jan Peters the second winner of the Collide @ CERN Geneva2 prize, which is supported by the Canton and City of Geneva. Jan Peters is internationally known as a film maker
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Ukraine to become Associate Member State of CERN
Geneva 3 October 2013. CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer and Mr. Kostyantyn Ivanovych Gryschenko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine today signed a document admitting Ukraine to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by Ukraine’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. “Ukraine has been a strong participant in LHC experiments and computing over recent years,” said CERN Director
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Major European scientific organisations to take part in European Researchers’ Nights
Geneva, 18 September – CERN, ESA, ESO and UNESCO, in partnership with the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), invite the public to participate in “Origins 2013”, an exceptional event to take place simultaneously in Geneva, Paris and Bologna on European researchers’ night, Friday 27 September. People from around the world can follow the event live
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CERN Open Days: bookings to visit the underground facilities are now being taken
Geneva, 15 August 2013. From today, CERN1 will be taking bookings for visits of its underground facilities during the Open Days. From 9am to 8pm on 28 and 29 September, members of the public will have a rare opportunity to visit one of CERN’s underground sites. Two points of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN’s flagship