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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The world's most powerful atom smasher is in neither the U.S. nor in Russia; it is in Switzerland. In the rolling countryside three miles northwest of Geneva, the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has built a great new proton synchrotron designed to produce 25 billion electron volts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: United for Atoms | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

CERN will rule the roost in high-energy physics until the 30-Bev machine at Brookhaven National Laboratory goes into operation next year. It may be tops even then; Dutch-born Professor Cornelius Bakker, CERN's director, thinks that his machine can be revved up to Brookhaven's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: United for Atoms | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Aware that modern nuclear research is too expensive for any but the world's giant powers, twelve of Europe's nations* launched CERN in 1954 as a scientific venture in international cooperation. CERN's most ambitious project so far is the big accelerator. It cost $35 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: United for Atoms | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Such deliberate mummification was practiced chiefly by the ancient Egyptians. But when Dr. Mori took the mummy back to Italy and had its age measured by the carbon 14 method, it proved to be 5,400 years old-considerably older than the oldest known civilization in the valley of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Older than Egypt? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The discovery suggested a clue to one of the great puzzles of Egyptology: Where was the birthplace of Egyptian culture? Although many authorities believe it is the world's oldest, they have been perplexed by the fact that it did not develop gradually in the Nile Valley. About 3200...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Older than Egypt? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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