CERN celebrates 70th birthday
the LMU Munich group congratulates CERN to its 70th birthday
30.01.2024
On September 29th, in 1954 the european nuclear and particle physics research lab CERN was established with the intention of "Science for Peace" by the ratification of a convention through 12 countries in Western Europe. Considered first as a laboratory for nuclear research it turned soon after into the European laboratory for particle physics. Several major scientific discoveries were achieved at CERN, e.g. the discovery of neutral currents, W± and Z0 bosons, the determination of the number of light neutrino families, the creation and storage of antihydrogen, the discovery of direct CP violation and of the Quark Gluon Plasma, and lately the discovery of the Higgs boson particle. We would like to congratulate CERN to 70 exciting and successful years and we look forward to many more ...
You can find more about the history of CERN at home.cern/about/who-we-are/our-historyatlas25 and about the celebration programme home.cern/news/press-release/cern/cern-celebrates-70-years-scientific-discovery-and-innovation.
