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CERN70: A two-stage rocket

Ted Wilson was involved in the design of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and played a leading role in its commissioning

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At CERN
27 June, 2024
At CERN
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27 June, 2024
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Every successful person has allies

Part five of the Work Well Feel Well series looks at the benefits of support networks

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At CERN
25 June, 2024
At CERN
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25 June, 2024
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CERN70: A gargantuan discovery

Violette Brisson played an active part in the discovery of neutral currents; she was head of the Gargamelle group at the Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris

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At CERN
13 June, 2024
At CERN
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13 June, 2024

CERN70: The world’s first hadron collider

Kjell Johnsen was Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) project leader when the accelerator was built

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At CERN
29 May, 2024

CERN70: An electronic revolution

Georges Charpak received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1968 invention of the multi-wire proportional chamber, which revolutionised particle detection

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At CERN
16 May, 2024
At CERN
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16 May, 2024

CERN70: The nucleus as a laboratory

Helge Ravn was part of the ISOLDE group from the beginning. When ISOLDE began operations at CERN in 1967, it was unique in the world

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At CERN
02 May, 2024
At CERN
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02 May, 2024

CERN70: Cutting-edge computing

Paolo Zanella came to the CERN computing group in 1962, just a few years after the first computer had arrived

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At CERN
17 April, 2024
At CERN
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17 April, 2024
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Get rid of your strains

Part four of the Work Well Feel Well series looks at ways to release tension

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At CERN
16 April, 2024
At CERN
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16 April, 2024
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CERN70: Tracing particles

Madeleine Znoy was one of the people responsible for “scanning” the films from the bubble chambers for interesting events

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At CERN
26 March, 2024
At CERN
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26 March, 2024
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CERN70: The dark side of the muon

Francis Farley, a British physicist, joined CERN in 1957. This marked the start of a long and remarkable career in experiments to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

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At CERN
14 March, 2024
At CERN
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14 March, 2024