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The 12 founding member states of CERN in 1954. [13]The convention establishing CERN [14] was ratified on 29 September 1954 by 12 countries in Western Europe. [15] The acronym CERN originally represented the French words for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire ('European Council for Nuclear Research'), which was a provisional council for building the laboratory, established by 12 ...
Map of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The 3.8-metre (12 ft) wide concrete-lined tunnel, constructed between 1983 and 1988, was formerly used to house the Large Electron–Positron Collider. [31] The tunnel crosses the border between Switzerland and France at four points, with most of it in France.
Meyrin (French pronunciation:) is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. The main site of CERN, the European particle physics research organisation, is in Meyrin. [3] Meyrin was originally a small agricultural village until the 1950s, when construction of CERN began just to the north.
A partial list of named streets at CERN, with the CERN sites they belong to and the French or Swiss Communes they traverse. [5] [6] Name CERN Site Commune Named for: Route Adams: Prévessin: Prévessin-Moëns: John Adams: Square Edoardo Amaldi: Meyrin: Meyrin: Edoardo Amaldi: Route Arago: Meyrin: Saint-Genis-Pouilly: François Arago: Chemin ...
The Globe of Science and Innovation is a visitor center, designed to inform visitors about the significant research being carried out at CERN.The wooden structure, which is 27 metres (89 ft) high and 40 metres (130 ft) in diameter, is a symbol of planet earth and was originally built for Expo.02 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
A large portion of CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, is located within the territory of Saint-Genis-Pouilly; the ALICE experiment is located on the periphery of the town, and the French entrance to the primary CERN campus and the ATLAS experiment are located only 3 km from the centre of St Genis. CERN is the world's largest ...
CERN near Geneva: contains the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, in a circular loop under the territory of both Switzerland and France: Letten Tunnel: 2.093: rail: Swiss Federal Railways Lake Zürich right-bank line: superseded by Hirschengraben Tunnel, now disused Lötschberg Base Tunnel: 34.57: rail: BLS AG Lötschberg line ...
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