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Read more about CERN’s contributions to fundamental physics and to international collaboration, and the possibilities that lie ahead.
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Cutting-edge computing
CERN’s first computer, a huge vacuum-tube Ferranti Mercury, was installed in 1958. It represented the first stage in the evolution…
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The nucleus as a laboratory
When the Isotope Separator On-Line (ISOLDE) began operations at the Synchrocyclotron (SC) in 1967, it was unique in the world.…
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An electronic revolution
Georges Charpak received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1968 invention of the multi-wire proportional chamber, which revolutionised…