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1954

Formation

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Europe begins its first official joint scientific venture. The acronym CERN is derived from the French “Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire”, meaning European Organization for Nuclear Research. Its purpose is to study the basic building blocks of physics: the atom.