Enjoy music, food, birthday cake and more to celebrate and thank our unique CERN community and our families – register by 31 August

Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in 1989 for an information management system called the World Wide Web

Herwig Schopper was Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, during which time the Large Electron Positron collider was approved and constructed

Calling all CERN community members: the CERN70 team is launching a competition for the design of the official T-shirt for the CERN70 Community Event

Carlo Rubbia’s name is closely related to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Simon van der Meer, for the work he had done as head of the UA1 collaboration

This year has seen a wealth of activities for CERN’s 70th anniversary. More is to still to come, including the CERN70 Community Event on 17 September

Ted Wilson was involved in the design of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and played a leading role in its commissioning

Violette Brisson played an active part in the discovery of neutral currents; she was head of the Gargamelle group at the Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris

On Tuesday 17 September from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. the CERN community is invited to celebrate the Laboratory’s 70th anniversary