CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, was founded by twelve European countries to build a major physics laboratory in the aftermath of the Second World War, when European research needed to pool resources. It is located on the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva. Its accelerators have produced notable discoveries, including the W and Z bosons in 1983 and the Higgs boson, announced in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider. The World Wide Web was invented at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 to help scientists share information. The organisation has grown to more than twenty member states and is a model of international scientific cooperation.
Before and after
- 30 August 1954Birth of Alexander Lukashenka
- from 8 September 1954 to 30 June 1977Founding of Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
- 18 September 1954Publication of Lord of the Flies
- 21 September 1954Birth of Shinzō Abe
- 29 September 1954Founding of CERN
- 29 September 1954Birth of Masoud Pezeshkian
- 23 October 1954Birth of Ang Lee
- from 23 October 1954 to 30 June 2011Founding of Western European Union
- from 1 November 1954 to 9 September 1962Algerian War
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- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations
- 5 October 1948Founding of International Union for Conservation of Nature
- 1960Founding of Somalia
- 1 October 1963Founding of Nigeria
- 1 November 1993Founding of European Union
- 2015Rise of Wikipedia Asian Month
The era
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