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Celebrating 70 years of CERN

In a collection of articles, we celebrate CERN’s achievements and look at its wider cultural impact.

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    On 29 September 1954, the European Organization for Nuclear Research came formally into existence, growing out of the post-war turmoil with the aim of establishing scientific collaboration between nations. Seventy years later, this laboratory — known to all as CERN — is credited with major developments in accelerator technology and crucial discoveries in the field of particle physics.

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  • Sociotechnical visions of the future can motivate researchers to create a better world, but as social scientist Benjamin K. Sovacool argues, they can also blind the scientific community to potential downsides.

    • Benjamin K. Sovacool
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  • Understanding what cutting-edge AI models are doing ‘under the hood’ requires not just theoretical research but also well-controlled computational experiments. Savannah Thais explains why physics datasets may be the testing ground that AI developers need and how physicists can play a critical role in developing trustworthy AI.

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  • 99 years ago, the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded — one year late — to Karl Manne Siegbahn.

    • Ghada Badawy
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  • 60 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Charles Townes, Nicolay Basov and Aleksandr Prokhorov.

    • Hannah Hatcher
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  • The history of particle physics is one of the great scientific stories of the 20th century, and a key player in that story is CERN. As the laboratory celebrates its 70th anniversary, there are challenges ahead.

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