CERN
 CERN  (Research)        | |
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| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Leader | CERN/Director-General |
| Subpage | •CERN/Director-General |
The European Organization for Nuclear Research is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border and has 23 member states.[1] Israel is the only non-European country granted full membership.[2] CERN is an official United Nations Observer.[3]
CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN through international collaborations. CERN is the site of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider.[4] The main site at Meyrin hosts a large computing facility, which is primarily used to store and analyse data from experiments, as well as simulate events. Researchers need remote access to these facilities, so the lab has historically been a major wide area network hub. Tim Berners-Lee created the WWW while working at CERN.[5]
Employees on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilberto Bernardini | Director | 1957 | 1964 |
| Katherine Horton | Particle Physicist | 2008 | 2010 |
