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CERN

1954 · 20th century · Also known as European Organization for Nuclear Research

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is an intergovernmental particle physics laboratory founded in 1954 on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva. It operates the world's largest particle accelerators, including the Large Hadron Collider, with which the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012. The World Wide Web was invented there by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). CERN. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/cern
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