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Nobody was paying attention to Tim Berners-Lee and his pet idea. He was a young British scientist at CERN, a high-energy physics lab in Geneva, and he had a radical new way for scientists to share data by linking documents to one another over the Internet. He had kicked around a few different names for it, including the "Infomesh" and the "Information Mine." But he wasn't getting much interest from his bosses. His proposal came back with the words "vague but exciting" written across the cover...
Gabrielse and his team make their anti-matter at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland...
...weeks before, on Sep. 18, a competing group, called ATHENA, which also uses the accelerator at CERN, announced that they had succeeded in joining an antiproton and a positron. This group is composed of mainly European scientists, who had not been serious competition for the Harvard group before...
When ATRAP members are not working in at CERN alongside ATHENA, they are at Harvard, creating, slowing, and studying positrons...