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Big Bang Day: The Making of CERN

Quentin Cooper explores the fifty-year history of CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Switzerland

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    2/2. During the 1970s, CERN overtook rival institutions in Russia and the US.

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      1/2. The institution was created to bring European scientists together after WW2.

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