Günther Plass, former Director of Accelerators at CERN, joined the Magnets group at the Proton Synchrotron (PS) in 1956. Three years later, the machine went into service and became the most powerful accelerator in the world

CERN community, thank you for your beautiful odes to technology, it wasn’t easy to pick our favourite…

Giuseppe Fidecaro was among the small group of physicists who performed the first experiment at CERN to provide results in 1958 that would spread the Laboratory’s name around the world

Attracted to magnets, fond of fermions? CERN community, now’s your chance to write an ode to technology with a CERN Valentine’s poem. Our favourite entry will win a prize

Franco Bonaudi, one of the pioneers of CERN's accelerators, looks back at the Laboratory's early years, during which everything had yet to be invented

François de Rose, a French diplomat, was involved in the creation of CERN. In 2004, he still remembered the first discussions that ultimately led to the birth of the Organization

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