October 22, 1999
On the Franco-Swiss Border, Cosmic Collisions -- and Another Big Bang?
If you're looking for particle physicists, this is the place.
At any given time, half of the world's specialists in that field are likely to be working at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. It's the largest such facility in the world, drawing scientists from more than 500 universities and 80 nations. There are probably 7,000 to 8,000 physicists here, "but we don't know exactly," says Neil Calder, director of CERN's news-media service. "We'd have to employ 50 people
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