CERN

Greece is a member of Council and one of the twelve founding Member States of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, in 1954 Ever since, Greek academic stuff and students participate in the entire spectrum of research activities making notable contributions to the field of particle physics.  Today Greek scientists participate, among others, to ATLAS, CMS, ALICE RD-51, Isolde, nTOF and Cast Experiments, while about 200 Greek researchers are doing research at CERN either as members of the organization or as users visiting from Greek Universities and research centers.
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