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History of particle acceleration

Suzie Sheehy · CERN

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This lecture traces the history of particle accelerators from the pioneers in the 1930s to the modern world of international mega-projects. Key developments are given in scientific and historical context, and qualitative descriptions are given of accelerator breakthroughs that have allowed orders of magnitude improvements in the course of a few decades.

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The talk

  1. History of particle acceleration 2023-09-26 · 56 min · CERN's player

Credits and licence

Institution
CERN
Department
CAS - CERN Accelerator School
Speaker
Suzie Sheehy
Year
2023
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Medicine and health, History
Source
CERN
Licence
CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
Attribution
© CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
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