September 29, 1954 – In Switzerland, twelve European countries found CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

European Organization for Nuclear Research is the Spanish name of the commonly known CERN, a provisional acronym used in 1952, corresponding to the French name Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, that is, European Council for Nuclear Research.

It was founded in 1954 by 12 European countries, becoming the largest and most important particle physics laboratory in the world. Currently, 22 Member States participate, 2,500 employees, under the supervision of the United Nations. In addition, 28 other non-member countries participate with scientists from 220 institutes and universities in projects at CERN using its facilities.

Officially it is located next to Geneva (Switzerland) although due to its proximity to the border with France there are facilities there. However, as an international facility, CERN is not under French or Swiss jurisdiction.

It is made up of a series of particle accelerators, such as the LHC (Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Collider) with a circumference of 27 km, which is the largest accelerator built to date.

Funded with the collaboration of 60 countries, throughout its history, it has had great successes such as the one that occurred in 1984, when Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the W and Z bosons. or when, in 1992, Georges Charpak also received the Nobel Prize for the invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. In addition, they made it possible to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson.

In 2013 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research together with Peter Higgs and François Englert.

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