Inside CERN, Geneva
A dozen European countries founded the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, to give CERN its full name, in 1952. The village of Meyrin, near Geneva International Airport, was chosen as the site for a super-lab to investigate the very smallest parts of our world – atoms. The sod was cut in 1954. In 1957 the first particle accelerator, the Synchrocyclotron, was built
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