Researched
CERN
Twelve European states found CERN (1954), the model of international big science.
Open in the interactive tree →Created to pool resources after the war, CERN built a series of accelerators, discovered the W and Z bosons (1983) and the Higgs boson (2012), and gave the world the web (1989-91). Its open collaboration of thousands of researchers is the template for large research facilities.
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- Standard Model of Particles1973The W and Z bosons were discovered at CERN in 1983
- World Wide Web1991Berners-Lee invented the web at CERN to share documents among physicists
- Higgs Boson Discovered2012The Higgs boson was found at CERN's Large Hadron Collider