CERN
Coordinates: 46°14′03″N 6°03′10″E / 46.23417°N 6.05278°E
CERN is a research institute near Geneva, Switzerland. [1] The full name is Organisation Européene pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research). The letters "CERN" are left over from the older Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research). CERN was founded in 1954. Today 22 nations are members of the organisation. It is the world's biggest laboratory for particle physics.[2] About 2600 people work there full-time, and over 7800 scientists from about 500 universities and research institutes work there in total.
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| Formation | 29 September 1954 |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Membership | 22 member states, 7 associate member states and 6 observers |
| Director General | Fabiola Gianotti |
| Website | cern.ch |
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The Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle accelerator in the world, is at CERN.
CERN Media
The 12 founding member states of CERN in 1954
Map of the Large Hadron Collider together with the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN
CMS detector for LHC
CERN building 40 at the Meyrin site.
Interior of office building 40 at the Meyrin site. Building 40 hosts many offices for scientists from the CMS and ATLAS collaborations.
ESO and CERN have a cooperation agreement.
The statue of Shiva engaging in the Nataraja dance (symbolizing his cosmic dance of creation and destruction) presented by the Department of Atomic Energy of India
Geneva tram 18 at CERN
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References
- ↑ BBC program [1]
- ↑ CERN, ed. (2019). CERN Annual report 2019. Annual Report of the European Organization for Nuclear Research. ISBN 978-92-9083-561-5.
Other websites
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