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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
Every successful person has allies
Part five of the Work Well Feel Well series looks at the benefits of support networks
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
CERN70: The world’s first hadron collider
Kjell Johnsen was Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) project leader when the accelerator was built
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
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
CERN70: Cutting-edge computing
Paolo Zanella came to the CERN computing group in 1962, just a few years after the first computer had arrived
Get rid of your strains
Part four of the Work Well Feel Well series looks at ways to release tension
CERN70: Tracing particles
Madeleine Znoy was one of the people responsible for “scanning” the films from the bubble chambers for interesting events
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