history of cern

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CERN70: Green light for LEP

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

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At CERN
31 July, 2024
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31 July, 2024

CERN70: The end of the alphabet

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

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At CERN
11 July, 2024
At CERN
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11 July, 2024

CERN70: A two-stage rocket

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

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At CERN
27 June, 2024
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27 June, 2024

CERN70: A gargantuan discovery

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

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At CERN
13 June, 2024
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13 June, 2024

CERN70: The world’s first hadron collider

Kjell Johnsen was Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) project leader when the accelerator was built

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At CERN
29 May, 2024

CERN70: An electronic revolution

Georges Charpak received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1968 invention of the multi-wire proportional chamber, which revolutionised particle detection

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At CERN
16 May, 2024
At CERN
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16 May, 2024

CERN70: The nucleus as a laboratory

Helge Ravn was part of the ISOLDE group from the beginning. When ISOLDE began operations at CERN in 1967, it was unique in the world

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At CERN
02 May, 2024
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02 May, 2024

CERN70: Cutting-edge computing

Paolo Zanella came to the CERN computing group in 1962, just a few years after the first computer had arrived

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At CERN
17 April, 2024
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17 April, 2024

CERN70: Tracing particles

Madeleine Znoy was one of the people responsible for “scanning” the films from the bubble chambers for interesting events

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At CERN
26 March, 2024
At CERN
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26 March, 2024

CERN70: The dark side of the muon

Francis Farley, a British physicist, joined CERN in 1957. This marked the start of a long and remarkable career in experiments to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

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At CERN
14 March, 2024
At CERN
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14 March, 2024

CERN70: The heart of CERN’s accelerator chain

Günther Plass, former Director of Accelerators at CERN, joined the Magnets group at the Proton Synchrotron (PS) in 1956. Three years later, the machine went into service and became the most powerful accelerator in the world

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At CERN
29 February, 2024
At CERN
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29 February, 2024