Acronym of CERN

( Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire ) CERN (CERN) or the European Organization for Research Nuclear (French: Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the largest Physics Laboratory particle world is that in the year 1954 in the north-eastern part of the city of Geneva in Switzerland, in the vicinity of the borders of France were created. Currently, twenty European country, a member of this organization has been more than 2٬600 employees in full-time and also at around 7, the 931 scientist and engineers (representing 580 universities and Research Institute in 80 countries of the world) are engaged in it to work.

the main activity of CERN making equipment, particle accelerators and other infrastructure and equipment is to research the physical in of high energy are used.Four obvious CERN, etc., the resulting international cooperation. The main headquarters of this organization located in Meyrin - one of the function, the Geneva - includes a center computer also. This center has facilities for processing powerful and is specifically to review the data from the experiment is mounted.

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