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CERN
Also Known As European Organization for Nuclear Research
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is a particle physics laboratory straddling the French-Swiss border near Geneva. It was established by a twelve-nation founding convention in 1954, one of Europe's first joint scientific ventures after the Second World War, built on the idea that fundamental physics research needed resources and a scale no single European nation could fund alone. It has no single founder; the convention was negotiated by delegates from the twelve founding member states. Its laboratories operate the Large Hadron Collider and are where the World Wide Web was first proposed, by Tim Berners-Lee, in 1989, as a way for CERN's own physicists to share documents.
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Founded YearSourced to the subject's own account Founded DateSourced to the subject's own account FounderSourced to the subject's own accountTwelve Western European states, under a convention ratified 29 September 1954 1 SeatSourced to the subject's own accountMeyrin, Switzerland, on the French-Swiss border near Geneva 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The convention establishing CERN was ratified on 29 September 1954 by 12 countries in Western Europe.
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also called European Laboratory for Particle Physics, known as CERN.
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