It is known by its French acronym, CERN and is an international scientific organization established for the purpose of collaborative research into high-energy particle physics.
About CERN
- Established: in 1954, as Europe’s first joint venture after World War-II.
- Location: outside of Geneva, Switzerland.
- Members: 23 Member States (10 Associate Member States)
- India is an Associate Member.
- Fundamental scientific character: Its convention states that it shall have no concern with work for military requirements.
Key Achievements:
- Discovery of the Z Boson and W Boson Particles: Fundamental in understanding the weak force.
- The World Wide Web: invented at CERN in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee.
- Study of Anti-Matter: with the help of the Antiproton Decelerator aiding in the study of the origin of the universe.
- The Higgs Boson Particle: also known as the God Particle was discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
- The Higgs boson is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons.
- CERN’s LHC is the world's largest particle accelerator. It collides protons or lead ions at energies approaching the speed of light.
India’s contributions
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