14 November 2024

Ugo Amaldi helped create a European network of cancer therapy centres using beams of ions, in particular carbon ions

Source || Part 21 of the CERN70 Series

Technology developed at CERN for accelerators and detectors has found many uses in areas beyond the field of ...

31 October 2024

Source || Part 20 of the CERN70 Series

Ask any member of the particle physics community where they were on 4 July 2012 and they won’t need to think too hard about it. The discovery of the Higgs boson was a milestone in the history of science, as evidenced by the ...

18 October 2024

Jürgen Schukraft joined CERN’s heavy-ion programme in 1986 and was the first spokesperson for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

Source || Part 19 of the CERN70 Series

On 7 November 2010, lead nuclei collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time. ...

4 October 2024

Lyn Evans was Project Leader for the Large Hadron Collider

Source || Part 18 of the CERN70 Series

The beginning of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dates back to the early 1980s. CERN’s major accelerator, the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP), was still in its study ...

20 September 2024

Lucio Rossi led the group responsible for superconducting magnets for the LHC

Source || Part 17 of the CERN70 Series

The LHC, the largest superconducting machine in the world, demonstrates how particle physics and CERN have been a driving force in the development of ...

3 September 2024

Walter Oelert led the team of researchers who produced the world’s first atoms of antihydrogen in 1995

Source || Part 16 of the CERN70 Series

For each particle, there exists an antiparticle with opposite properties, in particular electric charge. This has been well established, ...

20 August 2024

Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in 1989 for an information management system called the World Wide Web

Source || Part 15 of the CERN70 Series

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a young scientist working at CERN, wrote a proposal for an information management system based on the Internet. At ...

31 July 2024

Herwig Schopper was Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, during which time the Large Electron Positron collider was approved and constructed

Source || Part 14 of the CERN70 Series

The Large Electron Positron collider (LEP) project was first presented to the CERN Council in ...

11 July 2024

Carlo Rubbia’s name is closely related to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN

Source || Part 13 of the CERN70 Series

In 1983, CERN reached the end of the alphabet when the Laboratory announced the discovery of the long-sought W and Z particles. The announcement was so ...

27 June 2024

Ted Wilson was involved in the design of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and played a leading role in its commissioning.

Source || Part 12 of the CERN70 Series

In the early 1960s, when the Proton Synchrotron (PS) had just come into service, the scientific community was already ...