The 60th anniversary of CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory … – Reuters

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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research located in Geneva (Switzerland), celebrates its 60th anniversary along with delegations from 35 countries Monday.

This is the particle physics laboratory The world in which largest work of nearly 100 nationalities researchers .

Milestones CERN

Among the great achievements of CERN, emphasizes the idea that gave birth to the web emerged within its walls in 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee proposed to his boss to create a system that would allow the various departments of the center share information using a format that produced Standard under which no matter what type of computer used.

More recently, the July 4, 2012, a team of scientists at CERN announced the discovery of a subatomic particle could be the Higgs boson , a particle considered key to understanding the universe.

experiments conducted at CERN facilities , specifically in CMS (a detector in the Large Hadron Collider, LHC) and ATLAS (other experiments), sought to confirm the theories proposed in 1964 by Peter Higgs (UK), and François Englert (Belgium) and Robert Brout (EE .S.).

Very close to it after new evidence in 2013 that indicated that the new particle is looking more and more like a Higgs boson, the Higgs Englert and scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physics that year. A few months earlier, both physical and CERN itself received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific Research for his research.

Birth after World War II

The CERN He was born on September 29, 1954, although its origins date back to the 1940s a small group of visionary scientists and public administrators on both sides of the Atlantic, identified basic research as a vehicle to rebuild the devastated continent .

At CERN speak the universal language of science

“For six decades, CERN has been a place where people can work together, regardless of culture and nationality. formed a bridge between cultures to speak a universal language, that language is science, “said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer, as recorded by the organism in a note.

In 1954, 12 member states signed the founding act that led the agency could start working. In later years more countries have joined the CERN, including Spain , and currently has 21 members and more than 10,000 users worldwide.

“With time, CERN has become worldwide leader in laboratory particle physics , always focused on achieving excellence, “noted the President of the CERN Council, Agnieszka Zalewska.

Thanks to the instruments made by the body, such as accelerators of ever more powerful particle and research findings, CERN has been able to explore new frontiers of energy.

Some of his discoveries have improved Greatly understanding of the fundamental laws of nature and allowed the advancing technologies.