Walked here with my dad in 1970’s, when he was building the 26km long synchrotron
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.. being responsible for the design and production - the fast pulsed magnets
He worked as a nuclear physicist for CERN, from 1957 till 1998. I was born in 1962
home.cern/science/accele…
.. being responsible for the design and production - the fast pulsed magnets
He worked as a nuclear physicist for CERN, from 1957 till 1998. I was born in 1962
https://twitter.com/Leauickque/status/1354731833792065538
dad, top left, scratching his head during the installation.. 
Nowadays in the 26,6 km long CERN tunnel ...
The project was highly successful, because of the discovery of the W and Z particles, leading to the Nobel Price for his close colleagues, one being Dutch as well (Simon van der Meer)
CERN 101: electric particles placed in a magnetic field, will ‘run’ in perfect circles. The longer the circle, (by using powerful magnets) the higher the speed to be reached for these particles. At top speed these particles are being collided, to discover even smaller particles
In the 1970’s I ‘played’ with the first computer mouse. My dad didn’t have his own computer yet, but a mechanical calculator device, which was the coolest thing I ever saw. Big as a large type writer we let it calculate amazing complicated sums which took minutes to complete.
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