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The 12 founding member states of CERN in 1954. [13]The convention establishing CERN [14] was ratified on 29 September 1954 by 12 countries in Western Europe. [15] The acronym CERN originally represented the French words for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire ('European Council for Nuclear Research'), which was a provisional council for building the laboratory, established by 12 ...
Presidents of the CERN Council [2] Term President Country 1954–1957 Sir Ben Lockspeiser United Kingdom: 1958–1960 François de Tricornot de Rose France: 1961–1963 Jean Willems Belgium: 1964–1966 Jan Hendrik Bannier Netherlands: 1967–1969 Gösta Funke Sweden: 1970–1971 Edoardo Amaldi Italy: 1972–1974 Wolfgang Gentner Germany: 1975 ...
In office Directors General Country 1952–1954 Edoardo Amaldi (Secretary-General) [1] Italy 1954–1955 Felix Bloch [2] Switzerland 1955–1960 Cornelis Bakker Netherlands
Advisory Committee (AC) June 1957. 1960. Advised the Director-General on the utilisation of the accelerators by Member State visiting teams. Taken over by three new experimental committees. Detector Research and Development Committee (DRDC) July 1990. January 1995. Evaluated all proposals for detector R&D. Taken over by LHCC and SPSC.
Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove (10 February 1924 – 2 September 1990) [1] was a Belgian physicist and a Director General of CERN. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics , solid state physics , elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology .
After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset. [29] He ran the company's technical side for three years. [30] The project he worked on was a "real-time remote procedure call" which gave him experience in computer networking. [29] In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow. [28]
The ATLAS experiment was proposed in its current form in 1994, and officially funded by the CERN member countries in 1995. Additional countries, universities, and laboratories have joined in subsequent years. Construction work began at individual institutions, with detector components then being shipped to CERN and assembled in the ATLAS ...
Werner Heisenberg. Werner Karl Heisenberg (/ ˈhaɪzənbɜːrɡ /; [2] German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ kaʁl ˈhaɪzn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) [3] was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics, and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II.