Saulė ŽVinienė. CERN – What Don't We Know About It and Why Is It Important for Lithuania?

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Most people associate CERN with the 27-kilometer-long particle accelerator located on the Swiss border and the Higgs boson, the discovery of which was crowned with the Nobel Prize in 2013. This is true, but only part of the truth. A recent independent study on CERN’s socio-economic impact shows that the greatest benefits of CERN often come not from the physics laboratory, but from hospitals, companies and even schools – often hundreds of kilomet…