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22 unusual facts about CERN


15332 CERN

It is named after CERN, a particle physics laboratory on the border of France and Switzerland.

Amol Dighe

Later he did postdoctoral research at ICTP, Trieste, CERN and Max Planck Institute before joining TIFR as a faculty member in 2003.

Aslı Erdoğan

She worked at CERN as a particle physicist from 1991 to 1993 and received an MSc in physics from Boğaziçi University as a result of her research there.

Data corruption

Another study, performed by CERN over six months and involving about 97 petabytes of data, found about 1.2 × 10-9 of involved data (or about 116 gigabytes) becoming permanently corrupted.

Heuer

Rolf-Dieter Heuer (born 1948), a German particle physicist and the Director General of CERN.

Information technology in India

India holds observer status at CERN, while a joint India-EU Software Education and Development Center will be located in Bangalore.

JoWonder

The subject was based around the nuclear experiment at The European organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Katherine McAlpine

At the end of 2009 McAlpine released a new rap video on YouTube dealing with the unfounded fears surrounding experiments in CERN that could lead to the creation of a black hole which eventually would swallow the entire earth.

Lew Kowarski

A staff member of CERN (Geneva) since participating in its formation in 1953, he was a Decorated Officer Legion of Honor, Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, and a recipient of citation and prize from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

Nataraja

In 2004, a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva was unveiled at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva.

The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center's long association with India.

Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology

Establishing the world class physics research institute, roughly equivalent to CERN, in Pakistan, was a dream of dr. Abdus Salam who initiated the establishment of PINSTECH.

Quantum Break

While developing the game, developers Remedy Entertainment consulted a scientist lecturer who had worked at CERN who taught them how to write the plot in such a way that it adhered to current theoretical physics.

Ransom Stephens

As a particle physicist, Ransom Stephens worked on experiments at SLAC, Fermilab, CERN, and Cornell, discovered a new type of matter, and worked on the team that discovered the Top quark.

Saint-Genis-Pouilly

CERN brings to the community an opening on to the world of physics which is perhaps unique in the world.

A large portion of CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, is located in the territory of Saint-Genis-Pouilly.

Steins;Gate: Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu

After going through a painstaking journey across multiple 'World Lines' due to the invention of 'D-Mail', text messages that can be sent to the past, Rintarō Okabe has assumedly landed in the "Steins Gate" World Line, in which he was able to prevent the deaths of both Mayuri Shiina and Kurisu Makise, as well as prevent a future ruled by SERN due to the invention of a time machine no longer exists.

Sylvia Barlag

Between 1983 and 1989 she worked as a researcher at CERN, and then between 1989 and 2006 at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

Walter Oelert

In 1995 under the leadership of Professor Walter Oelert, the international group of physicists in the CERN laboratory managed to show that they had obtained experimentally nine atoms of antihydrogen in a particle accelerator.

World Wide Molecular Matrix

In his CERN presentation, Murray-Rust stated that the WWMM was a "response to the expense of scientific journals," and he asked the rhetorical question, "Can we win the war to make data open, or will it be absorbed into the publishing and pseudo-publishing world?"

In a presentation at the "CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communications (OAI4)", Murray-Rust said that chemistry actually leads other fields in published data.

Xeon Phi

Initial developers included CERN, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) and Leibniz Supercomputing Centre.


Antihydrogen

In 1995, the first antihydrogen was produced by a team of researchers under the lead of Walter Oelert at the CERN laboratory in Geneva.

Danilo Zavrtanik

Before 1995 he was active in eksperimental particle physics through international collaborations CPLEAR and DELPHI at CERN, where he was involved in the development of particle detectors, studies of CP, T and CPT violation in the decays of neutral kaons K0 and studies of heavy quark decays, W gauge boson decays and Higgs boson searches.

Einstein Wrote Back

Einstein Wrote Back is a memoir by Canadian physicist John Moffat which documents his encounters with various other famous physicists, including Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Fred Hoyle, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Dirac, Abdus Salam, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, as well as his work at Imperial College London, Princeton University, CERN, and the University of Toronto.

Energy recovery linac

For this suggestion, originating from a special committee of CERN physicists, M. Klein (Liverpool university), on the suggestion of the UK's Institute of Physics, received the 2013 mutual Max Born Prize of the British and the German Physical Societies.

Franco Selleri

He had numerous visiting professorships and fellowships, including CERN, Saclay, University of Nebraska, Cornell University, and Dubna.

Frequency scanning interferometry

An FSI system is being used to monitor shape changes of the semiconductor tracker (SCT) on the ATLAS detector at CERN.

Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber", with affiliations to both École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles (ESPCI) and CERN.

Giorgi Dvali

Before joining the NYU faculty in 1998, he worked at two renowned international research centers: the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and later at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ian Foster

Grid computing was credited by CERN director Rolf-Dieter Heuer as one of the elements essential for the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson.

IBM 5100

The Visual Novel/Manga/Anime series Steins;Gate makes numerous references as a plot device, such as when they needed it to crack some of CERN's files.

Interface Builder

One notable early use of Interface Builder was the development of a graphical WorldWideWeb web browser by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN using a NeXT workstation.

John Krige

After earning a PhD in philosophy at the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom in 1979, Krige's academic career has been in the history of science, including notable efforts within the project to write the history of CERN and the European Space Agency in the 1980s and 1990s.

Joseph Incandela

Since 1997 he has been involved with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, initially leading the construction of a large part of the tracking system for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment.

Katherine McAlpine

The YouTube video is a technically accurate yet easily understood introduction to the Large Hadron Collider operated by CERN.

Neutron trail

She toured various key experimental areas including the CERN Control Centre, ATLAS, the SM18 magnet test facility, and ISOLDE; met with Nobel Prize-winning physicist and former director of CERN Carlo Rubbia; and joined in a discussion with CERN’s ConCERNed for Humanity Club founders and guests.

Nicola Pellow

She left CERN at the end of August 1991, but returned after graduating in 1992, and worked with Robert Cailliau on MacWWW, the first web browser for Mac OS.

Otto Rössler

In June 2008, Rössler publicly criticized the Large Hadron Collider experiment supervised by CERN in Geneva and was involved in a failed lawsuit to halt it.

Penguin diagram

Then, one evening, after working at CERN, I stopped on my way back to my apartment to visit some friends living in Meyrin where I smoked some illegal substance.

Pran Nath

SUGRA models, and specifically mSUGRA, are currently the leading candidates for discovery at the Fermilab Tevatron and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Valentine Telegdi

After retiring from ETH he divided his time between CERN and the California Institute of Technology.