1. The history of CERN. The spirit of Europe. CERN - how it all started. CERN initiatives. CERN's history. The ambivalent role of the British. CERN - an idea takes shape. Intergovernmental meeting of UNESCO in Paris, December 1951. UNESCO General Conference, sixth session, Paris, December 1951. The birth of CERN. Cosmic rays from outer space. The CERN Convention of June 1953. The work begins. Felix Bloch. The creation of CERN, phases I-III. Personnel data. The structure of CERN (as of 1954). The era of Cornelis Jan Bakker (1955-1960). SC, PS, LINAC, and other machines. Bubble chambers, BEBC, Gargamelle. Gargamelle. Georges Charpak's multi-wire proportional chamber (MWPC). The ISR and other new proton accelerators. From PS to SPS - the return of John Adams. From large electron-positron collider (LEP) to large hadron collider (LHC). The large hadron collider. CERN particle accelerators. Types of particle accelerators. LINACs. Cyclotrons. Synchrotrons. Storage rings. The CERN Data Center, the World Wide Web, and beyond. The LHC incident of 2008 and restart. Geneva, July 4, 2012. CERN today. International relations of CERN. The future of CERN. The history of CERN -- 2. The practitioner: Rolf-Dieter Heuer. The atomic theory of Democritus of Abdera. Democritus' atomic model. Faust -- 3. The beginning of modern physics: Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler -- 4. The experimentalist: Tejinder S. Virdee. The four fundamental forces (interactions). Quotes by and about Newton. Isaac Newton -- 5. Dalton - Thomson - Rutherford - Bohr. The development of the atomic model. Bohr's atomic model -- 6. The man who built the LHC: Lyn Evans. The large hadron collider (LHC) -- 7. Physics, music, and art: Tara Shears -- 8. The theorist: John Ellis. The standard model -- 9. Oersted - Ampere - Faraday - Maxwell. Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851). Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836). Michael Faraday (1791-1867). Electromagnetic induction - classical field theory. Electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell -- 10. The communicator: Rolf Landua. Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) -- 11. Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Einstein quotes -- 12. The Japanese way: Masaki Hori. Antimatter I. The Michelson-Morley experiment. Antimatter II. Einstein's cosmological constant -- 13. The Nobel Prize Laureate: Carlo Rubbia. The Rubbiatron -- 14. The American friend: Sebastian White. The flammarion engraving. The Crab Nebula - Type II supernovae. Type Ia supernovae -- 15. Friendly competitors: Sebastian White and Albert De Roeck. ATLAS and CMS - a healthy competition -- 16. Rock 'n' roll, beer, billiards, and music: Jonathan Butterworth. Beauty is where you find it -- 17. The Higgs boson - and then?
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1. The history of CERN. The spirit of Europe. CERN - how it all started. CERN initiatives. CERN's history. The ambivalent role of the British. CERN - an idea takes shape. Intergovernmental meeting of UNESCO in Paris, December 1951. UNESCO General Conference, sixth session, Paris, December 1951. The birth of CERN. Cosmic rays from outer space. The CERN Convention of June 1953. The work begins. Felix Bloch. The creation of CERN, phases I-III. Personnel data. The structure of CERN (as of 1954). The era of Cornelis Jan Bakker (1955-1960). SC, PS, LINAC, and other machines. Bubble chambers, BEBC, Gargamelle. Gargamelle. Georges Charpak's multi-wire proportional chamber (MWPC). The ISR and other new proton accelerators. From PS to SPS - the return of John Adams. From large electron-positron collider (LEP) to large hadron collider (LHC). The large hadron collider. CERN particle accelerators. Types of particle accelerators. LINACs. Cyclotrons. Synchrotrons. Storage rings. The CERN Data Center, the World Wide Web, and beyond. The LHC incident of 2008 and restart. Geneva, July 4, 2012. CERN today. International relations of CERN. The future of CERN. The history of CERN -- 2. The practitioner: Rolf-Dieter Heuer. The atomic theory of Democritus of Abdera. Democritus' atomic model. Faust -- 3. The beginning of modern physics: Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler -- 4. The experimentalist: Tejinder S. Virdee. The four fundamental forces (interactions). Quotes by and about Newton. Isaac Newton -- 5. Dalton - Thomson - Rutherford - Bohr. The development of the atomic model. Bohr's atomic model -- 6. The man who built the LHC: Lyn Evans. The large hadron collider (LHC) -- 7. Physics, music, and art: Tara Shears -- 8. The theorist: John Ellis. The standard model -- 9. Oersted - Ampere - Faraday - Maxwell. Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851). Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836). Michael Faraday (1791-1867). Electromagnetic induction - classical field theory. Electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell -- 10. The communicator: Rolf Landua. Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) -- 11. Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Einstein quotes -- 12. The Japanese way: Masaki Hori. Antimatter I. The Michelson-Morley experiment. Antimatter II. Einstein's cosmological constant -- 13. The Nobel Prize Laureate: Carlo Rubbia. The Rubbiatron -- 14. The American friend: Sebastian White. The flammarion engraving. The Crab Nebula - Type II supernovae. Type Ia supernovae -- 15. Friendly competitors: Sebastian White and Albert De Roeck. ATLAS and CMS - a healthy competition -- 16. Rock 'n' roll, beer, billiards, and music: Jonathan Butterworth. Beauty is where you find it -- 17. The Higgs boson - and then?