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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 ...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories across more than 100 countries. [ 3 ]
Meyrin (French pronunciation: [mɛʁɛ̃]) 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.
At the same time, there were 2933 non-Swiss men and 2662 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 135 and the non-Swiss population increased by 3181 people.
Synchrotrons. Fixed-target accelerators. Toggle Fixed-target accelerators subsection. High intensity hadron accelerators (Meson and neutron sources) Electron and low intensity hadron accelerators. Colliders. Toggle Colliders subsection. Electron–positron colliders. Hadron colliders.
Blank maps derived from OMC. A web interface by Martin Weinelt– It generates maps using GMT (The Generic Mapping Tools), from public domain vector data. The resulting maps should be in the public domain. These maps show elevation and main rivers, but no modern boundaries.
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Map of the territorial evolution of the Old Swiss Confederacy(1291–1798). The territorial evolution of Switzerlandoccurred primarily with the acquisition of territory by the historical cantonsof the Old Swiss Confederacyand its close associates. This gradual expansiontook place in two phases, the growth from the medieval Founding Cantonsto ...