|
|
 Email |  Discuss | Get latest news on your desktop
A Wednesday. Will the world survive it?
September 8, 2008
CERN has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.
Image: The giant magnet, weighing 1920 tonnes, rests 100 metres down the 27 km tunnel to provide a magnetic field for the giant particle detector.
Photograph: Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP/Getty Images
|
|
|
Advertisement
