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/

Location:
Geneva, Switzerland

Founding Date:
29-Sep-1954

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Pierre Auger	Physicist	14-May-1899	25-Dec-1993	Auger effect
John Stewart Bell	Physicist	28-Jun-1928	1-Oct-1990	Bell's theorem of quantum physics
Felix Bloch	Physicist	23-Oct-1905	10-Sep-1983	Nuclear magnetic resonance
Niels Bohr	Physicist	7-Oct-1885	18-Nov-1962	Father of Quantum Theory
Louis de Broglie	Physicist	15-Aug-1892	19-Mar-1987	Discovered the wave nature of electrons
Georges Charpak	Physicist	1-Aug-1924	29-Sep-2010	Subatomic particle detectors
Sheldon Glashow	Physicist	5-Dec-1932		Electroweak Theory
Roy J. Glauber	Physicist	1-Sep-1925		Quantum optics
Werner Heisenberg	Physicist	5-Dec-1901	1-Feb-1976	Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Robert Hofstadter	Physicist	5-Feb-1915	17-Nov-1990	Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons
Vernon W. Hughes	Physicist	28-May-1921	25-Mar-2003	Muons
Leon M. Lederman	Physicist	15-Jul-1922		Researcher of neutrinos
Edwin M. McMillan	Physicist	18-Sep-1907	7-Sep-1991	Discovered neptunium and plutonium
Ben R. Mottelson	Physicist	9-Jul-1926		Determined shapes of nuclei
Wolfgang Paul	Physicist	10-Aug-1913	6-Dec-1993	Co-Inventor of the ion trap
Martin L. Perl	Physicist	24-Jun-1927	30-Sep-2014	Discovered the tau lepton
Cecil Powell	Physicist	5-Dec-1903	9-Aug-1969	Discovered the pi-meson
Isidor Isaac Rabi	Physicist	29-Jul-1898	11-Jan-1988	Magnetic beam resonances
Burton Richter	Physicist	22-Mar-1931		Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
Carlo Rubbia	Physicist	31-Mar-1934		Co-Discovered W and Z particles
Simon Singh	Author	19-Sep-1964		Fermat's Enigma
Jack Steinberger	Physicist	25-May-1921		Researcher of neutrinos
Samuel C. C. Ting	Physicist	27-Jan-1936		Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
Simon van der Meer	Physicist	24-Nov-1925	4-Mar-2011	Co-Discovered W and Z particles
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
Kenneth G. Wilson	Physicist	8-Jun-1936	15-Jun-2013	Second-order phase transitions

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