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Nature 455, 174-175 (11 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/455174a; Published online 10 September 2008
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Meetings that changed the world: Paris 1951: The birth of CERN
François de Rose1
- François de Rose chaired the UNESCO meeting that was held in Paris from 17 to 21 December 1951. He was president of the council of CERN from 1959 to 1962 and was France's ambassador to NATO from 1970 to 1975. He is the author of La France et la défense de l'Europe (Seuil, 1976), translated as European Security and France (Macmillan, 1984).
Abstract
François de Rose chaired the meeting that founded Europe's premier facility for experimental nuclear and particle research. Here he relives the five days of drama that changed the world of physics.
As a young French diplomat taking my first steps in international affairs, I had the privilege of representing my country for several years at a United Nations commission in the late 1940s. The United States, under the leadership of the financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch and the physicist Robert Oppenheimer, wanted the United Nations to be given oversight of all the world's nuclear weapons and nuclear power — the so-called Baruch plan.
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