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CERN

international organization which operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory

6 dated entries naming CERN, drawn from 6 separate years between 1960 CE and 2012 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1960February 5 – The first CERN particle accelerator becomes operational in Geneva, Switzerland.source
  • 1990December 20 – Tim Berners-Lee completes the test for the first webpage at CERN.source
  • 1991August 6 – Tim Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist working at CERN, announces the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. The first website, "info.cern.ch", is created.source

21st century

  • 2008September 10 – The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, located at CERN, near Geneva, under the Franco-Swiss border.source
  • 2010November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.source
  • 2012July 4 – CERN announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.source

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