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Bertha Pauli’s son Wolfgang is born
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Wolfgang Pauli begins his studies in Munich
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The Como congress 1927
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Wolfgang Pauli appointed professor at ETH Zürich
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December 1930 - Pauli’s Neutrino letter (now in music and art!)
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The Copenhagen Faustparodie
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Pauli and Sommerfeld in Geneva
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Wolfgang Pauli learns that he has been awarded the Nobel prize
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Pauli travels to Sweden to receive the Nobel prize
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CERN is born, mother and child are doing well
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Redesigning the Proton Synchrotron
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Signing the CERN Convention
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Settling into Geneva
Construction of CERN begins
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CERN exists!
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The new CERN Council
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“OERN is difficult to pronounce in most languages”
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Baby CERN’s first Christmas
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Inaugural meeting of the CERN Staff Association
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Laying the foundation stone of CERN
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Election of the CERN Staff Association Committee
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The Journal of Jocular physics 1955
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Does CERN need to buy a computer?
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Neutrinos detected at last!
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Birth of the CERN fire brigade
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The P.A.U.L.I. and its uses
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The first circulating beam in the Synchrocyclotron
Closure of CERN’s Theoretical Study Division in Copenhagen
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8th Annual International Conference on High Energy Physics
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Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s World
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Preparing CERN’s HBC30 bubble chamber for testing
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CERN Courier No. 1
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The Proton Synchrotron is up and running
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Inauguration of the Proton Synchrotron
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First session of the CERN Computer Users’ Committee
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CERN commemorates Wolfgang Pauli
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Miss Steel and the Scientific Conference Secretariat
Matter in question
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Inauguration of the IBM 709
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Summoning the Founding Fathers
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CERN on ice
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The lighter side of neutrino experiments
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Fast ejection of protons from the PS
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CERN Open Day!
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Fun and games at the traditional CERN Christmas party
No parking problems with a palanquin
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A CERN stamp
Muons are like drunken cowboys
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The 55th Tour de France comes to CERN
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CERN’s new telephone exchange
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T. D. Lee lectures to CERN’s summer students
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An Apollo 9 astronaut visits CERN
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The European Southern Observatory at CERN
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The world’s first proton-proton collider
New home for CERN apprentices
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Computers: why?
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Completion of the SPS tunnel
Chatting about physics at the National People’s Congress
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Inaugurating the Super Proton Synchrotron
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CERN Staff Day
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama visits CERN
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Speeches from the Swiss and French presidents at the LEP ground-breaking ceremony
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CERN’s 30th anniversary
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First outline of the World Wide Web
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