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...Cairo University in Egypt, to consider them as potential sites for summer study, or academic years abroad, for interested students. One grant for more immediate use went to Gerald Gabrielse, Leverett professor of physics, who proposed sponsorship allowing students to work in his laboratory at the world-renowned CERN in Switzerland. “For many years, my whole career, actually, I’ve had undergraduates working in my laboratory,” he said. “I’ve usually had European students working with me and I felt it was unfortunate that Harvard students could...
...Trieste, Italy, devised a model that integrated the weak and electromagnetic forces into a so-called electroweak force and predicted the characteristics of the W and Z particles. Their theory was experimentally confirmed when a team led by Carlo Rubbia discovered the W and Z particles at the CERN accelerator near Geneva. In 1979 physicists working with an accelerator in West Germany found experimental evidence for the existence of the gluon, the strong-force carrier. Most physicists believed that a theory called quantum chromodynamics, which explains the strong force, would eventually be encompassed with the electroweak theory under one grand...
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...
...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...