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Big Bang Day: The Making of CERN

Quentin Cooper explores the fifty-year history of CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Switzerland

Radio 4,2 episodes

Episodes

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Episode 1
The institution was created to bring European scientists together after WW2.
08 Sep 2008,30 mins
Episode 2
During the 1970s, CERN overtook rival institutions in Russia and the US.
09 Sep 2008,30 mins