May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 6m
English
The name CERN is derived from the acronym for the French Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or European Council for Nuclear Research, a provisional body founded in 1952 with the mandate of establishing a world-class fundamental physics research organization in Europe. In the early days, CERN was mostly concerned with understanding the insides of an atom, the nucleus, and thus, the word Nucléaire.
Today, CERN's main charge is studying and researching particle physics, the study of the fundamentals of matter and forces that act upon it. Today, the labs at CERN are commonly referred to as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
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