Archive of important events in CERN's history for press

  1. CERN celebrates its 50th birthday

    CERN celebrated its 50th anniversary in style,…

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  2. The LHC starts up

    At 10.28am on 10 September 2008 a beam of protons…

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  3. "Angels and Demons" promotion at CERN

    CERN today hosted a visit from actors Tom Hanks…

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  4. WWW@20

    On 13 March 2009, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee…

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  5. First LHC collisions at 7 TeV

    ATLAS records collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass…

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  6. ATLAS and CMS observe a particle consistent with the Higgs boson

    On 4 July 2012, as a curtain raiser to the year…

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  7. CERN celebrates its 60th birthday

    On 29 September 1954, the CERN Convention entered…

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