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CERN
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Coordinates: 46°14'03?N 6°03'10?E? / ?46.23417°N 6.05278°E? / 46.23417; 6.05278
European Organization
for Nuclear Research
Organisation européenne
pour la recherche nucléaire
Formation
29 September 1954
Headquarters
Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Israel
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Associate members:
Pakistan
Turkey
English and French
Agnieszka Zalewska
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Website
www.cern.ch
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN (/'s?rn/; French pronunciation: ?; derived from the name "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire"; see History) is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border, (46°14'3?N 6°3'19?E? / ?46.23417°N 6.05528°E? / 46.23417; 6.05528) and has 22 member states. Israel is the first (and currently only) non-European country granted full membership.The term CERN is also used to refer to the laboratory, which in 2013 had 2,513 staff members, and hosted some 12,313 fellows, associates, apprentices as well as visiting scientists and engineers representing 608 universities and research facilities.CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN as a result of international collaborations.CERN is also the birthplace of the World Wide Web. The main site at Meyrin has a large computer facility containing powerful data processing facilities, primarily for experimental-data analysis; because of the need to make these facilities available to researchers elsewhere, it has historically been a major wide area networking hub.
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^ "CERN – Council Delegates". cern.ch.
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^ "CERN Annual Report 2013 – CERN in Figures". CERN. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
^ "A global endeavour". CERN. 15 July 2015.
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