History of CERN /

The present volume covers the story of the history of CERN from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s. The book is organized in three main parts. The first, containing contributions by historians of science, perceives the laboratory as being at the node of a complex of interconnected relationships between...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	ScienceDirect (Online service), European Organization for Nuclear Research
Other Authors:	Krige, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Oxford : North-Holland.
Subjects:	European Organization for Nuclear Research. European Organization for Nuclear Research Nuclear physics. Nuclear Physics Physique nucléaire. nuclear physics. SCIENCE > Physics > Nuclear. SCIENCE > Physics > Atomic & Molecular. Nuclear physics Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Front Cover; History of Cern; Copyright Page; Preface; List of supporting institutions; Notes on Contributors; Contents; PART I: INTERACTIONS; Chapter 1. CERN from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s; Chapter 2. Gargamelle and BEBC. How Europe's last two giant bubble chambers were chosen; Chapter 3. The difficult decision, taken in the 1960s, to construct a 3-400 GeV proton synchrotron in Europe; Chapter 4. The Intersecting Storage Rings. The construction and operation of CERN's second large machine and a survey of its experimental programme.