CERN

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/