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Nature 448, 281-284 (19 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature06076; Published online 18 July 2007

How the LHC came to be

Chris Llewellyn Smith1

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Approval of a project the size of the Large Hadron Collider is an exercise in politics and high finance.

  1. Chris Llewellyn Smith was Director-General of CERN from 1994 to 1998. He is currently Director of the UK Atomic Energy Authority Culham Division, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon OX14 3DB, UK.

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