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Published online 13 May 2009 | Nature 459, 151 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459151a
Updated online: 19 May 2009

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Austria quits CERN after 50 years

Physicists stunned by government's plans.

Austria has announced that it will withdraw from CERN, Europe's premier high-energy physics laboratory, located near Geneva in Switzerland. The announcement — just months before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator — has left Austrian physicists stunned.

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