1951: The acronym CERN was born

At the end of World War II, European science was no longer world-class. Following the example of international organizations, a handful of visionary scientists envisioned the creation of a European laboratory for atomic physics. In December 1951, at a UNESCO intergovernmental meeting in Paris, the first resolution on the creation of the European Council for Nuclear Research was adopted. Two months later, 11 countries signed an agreement establishing the provisional council - the acronym CERN was born. This video extract from 1967 explains how CERN began. Read out more: http://home.cern/about You can follow us in: http://www.cern.ch http://www.youtube.com/cerntv http://www.facebook.com/cern http://twitter.com/cern/ http://instagram.com/cern http://linkedin.com/company/cern