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19 July 2007

What goes round


CERN's Large Hadron Collider, due to start work in May 2008, has had a colourful history. A glimpse of just how colourful can be gained from the Perspective piece in this week's Insight, by Chris Llewellyn Smith. As CERN director-general during the crucial phase of project approval, Llewellyn Smith had a ring-side seat during the political sparring and financial deal-making that are seemingly inevitable in major international projects like this.

InsightHow the LHC came to be

Chris Llewellyn Smith

doi:10.1038/nature06076

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