CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, was founded in 1954 and is one of the world's largest centres for scientific research. Its laboratory sits on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva and is run by an intergovernmental organisation of member states. Its… CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, was founded in 1954 and is one of the world's largest centres for scientific research. Its laboratory sits on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva and is run by an intergovernmental organisation of member states. Its research centres on particle physics and the accelerators that drive it, including the Large Hadron Collider, together with detector technology, computing and data science. The World Wide Web was invented at CERN in 1989.