On 4 March, when the production of superconducting cable was nearing the half-way point, a magic number appeared on the display board on the fourth floor of Building 30: only 1000 dipoles left to be produced! 232 of them had already been delivered to CERN.
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CERN's first computer, a huge vacuum-tube Ferranti Mercury, was installed in building 2 in 1958. With its 60 microsecond clock cycle, it was a million times slower than today's big computers.
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You may have seen posters at CERN promoting a Fiftieth Anniversary book. This is a publication by the Geneva publisher iColor, which issues a book on the local area every year.
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Rafael Armenteros passed away on Friday, 5 March, to the immense sadness of his family and friends. Having begun his scientific career at the University of Manchester, he took part in the observation of...
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On 1st and 4th March respectively, CERN received visits from Asset Issekeshev, Kazakhstan's Vice-Minister of Industry and Trade, and Reza Mansouri, Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Most people seem to agree that an empty space has nothing in it. But what about the physicists? "Wait a minute!", they will tell you, at the Microcosm's next Discovery Monday on 5th April, for they know that even interstellar space is not as empty as it might seem.
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