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UoH team basks in global glory as Large Hadron Collider wins 2025 Breakthrough Prize • Apr. 16, 2025, 7:39 AM ET (The Hindu)
University of Hyderabad team basks in glory as LHC wins Breakthrough Prize • Apr. 16, 2025, 2:15 AM ET (The Hindu)
Scientists release plans for an even bigger atom smasher to address the mysteries of physics • Apr. 1, 2025, 10:58 AM ET (AP)

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Also Known As Organisation Européene pour la Recherche Nucléaire • European Organization for Nuclear Research • Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
Date 1954 - present
Headquarters Geneva
Areas Of Involvement subatomic particle • particle accelerator • Large Hadron Collider • particle physics • Intersecting Storage Rings • proton synchrotron • Super Proton Synchrotron • Large Electron-Positron collider • scientific research
Related People Werner Heisenberg • Tim Berners-Lee • Carlo Rubbia • Isidor Isaac Rabi • Georges Charpak • Simon van der Meer • Felix Bloch • Jack Steinberger

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