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...slated to be based at the laboratoryof CERN, a multinational physics organizationfunded by 19 European countries...
...scientific enterprise. Probably not without help, says Erich Bloch, former head of the National Science Foundation: "There's no single country, including ours, that can afford such a big project." In the future, U.S. scientists will have to rely more on international partnerships. A model is the Switzerland-based CERN laboratory, a consortium financed by 18 countries that is building its own giant accelerator. The large hadron collider will be only 40% as powerful as the SSC, but has a good chance of doing comparable science. That won't be much consolation, though, to the people who converged on Waxahachie...
Georges Charpak, 68, son of Polish immigrants, who served in the French Resistance in World War II and survived Dachau. A physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva since 1959, he was honored for his 1968 work in particle physics and invention of the "multiwire proportional chamber," a tool physicists use to probe the nature of matter. Charpak will use the award for research...
...built, the SSC will be a magnet for young, ambitious scientists. But since Congress will have to appropriate hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the next half-decade for the project, there is always a chance that the money will suddenly dry up, along with jobs. CERN's budget, on the other hand, is shouldered by 14 European governments, thereby spreading the risks and costs...
...being formed by Ting. Politically shrewd, he has wooed physicists from a number of weapons laboratories and Southeastern universities, which until now have not been powers in the field of particle physics. Observers expect he will run the experiment in the strictly hierarchical fashion he has displayed at CERN. At the same time, physicists from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory and Japan are drawing up a collaboration that will be run along the more democratic lines of Fermilab. The clash of cultures between the CERN and Fermilab styles of management may make the sociology of the SSC nearly...