ORGANIZATION

The principal European nuclear research laboratory. The acronym CERN is derived from the French Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Official Website:
http://www.cern.ch/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Stewart Bell	Physicist	28-Jun-1928	1-Oct-1990	Bell's theorem of quantum physics
Roy J. Glauber	Physicist	1-Sep-1925		Quantum optics
Werner Heisenberg	Physicist	5-Dec-1901	1-Feb-1976	Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Vernon W. Hughes	Physicist	28-May-1921	25-Mar-2003	Muons
Martinus J.G. Veltman	Physicist	27-Jun-1931		Quantum physicist
Gabriele Veneziano	Physicist	20-Feb-1942		Father of string theory
Victor Weisskopf	Physicist	19-Sep-1908	21-Apr-2002	Head of CERN, 1961-65

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