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On Tuesday 17 September from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. the CERN community is invited to celebrate the Laboratory’s 70th anniversary
Join us at the Third Collisions event, “Accelerating Beyond”, taking place at CERN on 9 – 11 February
Staff members who marked 25 years of service to CERN in 2023 were invited by the Director-General on 2 November to the traditional ceremony held in their honour
Félix Hoffmann was a CERN tour guide for more than 50 years
Pascale Goy replaces Matteo Castoldi as head of the CERN & Society Foundation
A record 992 CERN people participated in the 2018 Bike to Work campaign
The Sharing Knowledge Foundation Prize was presented to the ATLAS physicist at a ceremony on 18 March
Wim Klein, CERN's first computer, was born 100 years ago this week. A former colleague remembers him