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CERN

Also Known As European Organization for Nuclear Research
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is a particle physics laboratory straddling the French-Swiss border near Geneva. It was established by a twelve-nation founding convention in 1954, one of Europe's first joint scientific ventures after the Second World War, built on the idea that fundamental physics research needed resources and a scale no single European nation could fund alone. It has no single founder; the convention was negotiated by delegates from the twelve founding member states. Its laboratories operate the Large Hadron Collider and are where the World Wide Web was first proposed, by Tim Berners-Lee, in 1989, as a way for CERN's own physicists to share documents. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Founded YearSourced to the subject's own account
1954 1
Founded DateSourced to the subject's own account
1954-09-29 1
FounderSourced to the subject's own account
Twelve Western European states, under a convention ratified 29 September 1954 1
SeatSourced to the subject's own account
Meyrin, Switzerland, on the French-Swiss border near Geneva 1
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Source The Higgs Boson (CERN)
Source Large Hadron Collider (CERN)

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Source Our History (CERN)
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1. CERN (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • History section
    The convention establishing CERN was ratified on 29 September 1954 by 12 countries in Western Europe.
  • Lead section
    The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also called European Laboratory for Particle Physics, known as CERN.
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