He did more than anyone to build the Large Hadron Collider. This year he saw it finished -- and then break down. Geoff Brumfiel profiles the LHC's project leader, Nature's newsmaker of the year.
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Brumfiel, G. Newsmaker of the year: The machine maker. Nature 456, 862–868 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456862a
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