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1 online resource (xvi, 658 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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| Summary |
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 scientists and science managers on the staff, the users in the member states, and the governments which were called upon to finance the organization. Parts II and III include chapters by practising scientists. The former surveys the theoretical and experimental physics results obtained at CERN in this period, while the latter describes the development of the laboratory's accelerator complex and Charpak detection techniques. |
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Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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European Organization for Nuclear Research
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Nuclear physics.
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Nuclear Physics |
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Physique nucléaire.
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nuclear physics.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Nuclear.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Atomic & Molecular.
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Nuclear physics
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| Added Author |
Krige, John.
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European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History of CERN. Amsterdam ; Oxford : North-Holland 0444896554 9780444896551 (OCoLC)36462219 |
| ISBN |
9780080534039 (electronic bk.) |
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0080534031 (electronic bk.) |
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9780444896551 |
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0444896554 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000048130044 |
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DEBBG BV039832002 |
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DEBBG BV042311081 |
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DEBSZ 367774240 |
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DEBSZ 482356642 |
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NZ1 14971588 |
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NZ1 15193791 |
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UKMGB 017584303 |
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