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The creation of CERN, the European particle accelerator laboratory which straddles the Swiss-French border near Geneva, has been one the triumphs of modern European science and co-operation, however its history has not been without controversy. This text explains the history and politics which have surrounded CERN from its original inception through to its current research programmes.

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Fraser gives us an impressionist picture of some of the key people, ideas and tools that contributed to the Standard Model with bright splotches of colour spread over a broad range of space and time on the backdrop of the major historical events of this century History of Physics Newsletter a careful and fascinating account of particle physics in the 20th Century Christine Sutton, New Scientist An account worth having for its record of how the struggle for dominance in fundamental physics looked from the European side. This is a story which includes many of the great moments of 20th-century science The Financial Times Fraser presents the history of particle physics from a refreshingly new perspective - that of the machine builders. Michael Riordan, CERN Courier Fraser shows unusual skill in finding vivid analogies that capture physical pictures without distorting them. In many ways this book complements Abraham Pais' Inward Bound Gary Feldman, Physics World gives us an impressionist picture of some of the key people, ideas and tools that contributed to the Standard Model with bright splotches of colour spread over a broad range of space and time on the backdrop of the major historical events of this century History of Physics Newsletter a careful and fascinating account of particle physics in the 20th Century Christine Sutton, New Scientist An account worth having for its record of how the struggle for dominance in fundamental physics looked from the European side. This is a story which includes many of the great moments of 20th-century science The Financial Times Fraser presents the history of particle physics from a refreshingly new perspective - that of the machinebuilders. Michael Riordan, CERN Courier Fraser shows unusual skill in finding vivid analogies that capture physical pictures without distorting them. In many ways this book complements Abraham Pais' Inward Bound Gary Feldman, Physics World

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