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  • US becomes observer at CERN

    Geneva, 19 December 1997. The CERN1 Council, where the representatives of the 19 Member States of the organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 109th session on 19 December under the chairmanship of Paul Levaux (BE). Observer status for US Council delegates applauded warmly as representatives of United States of America were

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  • Professor Luciano Maiani chosen as next Director General of CERN

    Professor Luciano Maiani chosen as next Director General of CERN

    Prof. Luciano Maiani as the next Director General of the Organisation. Geneva, 19 December 1997. CERN1 Council announced at its meeting on 19 December 1997, the election of Prof. Luciano Maiani as the next Director General of the Organisation. Prof. Maiani will take office as from 1 January 1999, replacing Prof. Llewellyn Smith who will

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  • U.S. to contribute $531 million to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider project

    Geneva, 8 December 1997. U.S. and European officials today signed an agreement for U.S. participation in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator under construction near Geneva, Switzerland. When completed in 2005, the 27-kilometre circumference accelerator will be the most powerful in the world. The new accelerator is being built at CERN1, the European

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  • CERN holds Workshop on Technology Transfer

    Geneva, 25 November 1997. The World-Wide Web, medical imaging, advanced electronic chip design. These are just a few recent results of fundamental research at the World’s leading laboratory for particle physics, CERN1, in Geneva. Although the Laboratory’s mission is pure science, the tools of the trade, particle accelerators and detectors, push the bounds of technology

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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

    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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