CERN What does it stand for?

Conseil Europ?en pour la Recherche Nucl?aire, or the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. When it was founded in 1954, the cutting edge of theoretical physics was concerned with investigating the nucleus of the atom, hence the word ‘nuclear’ in the title. Today CERN’s research focuses on the sub-atomic particles at a much deeper level than the nucleus; for this reason

it is sometimes also referred to as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. CERN makes a strong claim to be the greatest experiment ever undertaken by humankind, remarkable for its scale, number of scientists and countries involved, technological expertise and sheer ambition.