At the end of the Second World War, European…
The first meeting of the CERN Council quickly…
Geneva was selected as the site for the CERN…
The draft convention was completed in the alotted…
On 17 May 1954, the first shovel of earth was dug…
At the sixth session of the CERN Council, which…
The 600 MeV Synchrocyclotron (SC), built in 1957…
The Proton Synchrotron (PS) accelerated protons…
By 1965, all three particles that make up atoms (…
In the 1960s, detection in particle physics…
By the late 1950s, physicists knew that a huge…
Seven kilometres in circumference, the Super…
With completion of the Super Proton Synchrotron (…
A few months after the signature of the agreement…
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) became the…
The Intersecting Storage Rings produced the world…
In 1979, CERN decided to convert the Super Proton…
Just after the big bang the universe was too hot…
The excavation of the tunnel for the Large…
With its 27-kilometre circumference, the Large…
By Christmas 1990, Sir Berners-Lee had defined…
A team led by Walter Oelert created atoms of…
Four years after the first technical proposals,…
In 1996 CERN's antiproton machines – the…
The CERN research board officially approves…
LHCb is the fourth experiment approved for the…
The Large Electron–Positron collider was shut…
CERN celebrated its 50th anniversary in style,…
The ATLAS Barrel Toroid, then the largest…
At 10.28am on 10 September 2008 a beam of protons…
On 19 September 2008, during powering tests of…
The 53rd and final replacement magnet for the…
The ALPHA experiment at CERN reported today that…
In a seminar today the ATLAS and CMS experiments…
On 4 July 2012, as a curtain raiser to the year…
CERN announces its anniversary of 60…
Possible layout of the quarks in a pentaquark…
CERN, the État de Genève and the Ville de Meyrin…
