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CERN at 50: the highlights

Sep 1, 2004

"Science progresses in two ways," says Herwig Schopper, who was director general of CERN between 1980 and 1988. "There are great discoveries, sometimes unexpected, that make headlines, and there is also steady tedious work that, after a length of time, gives a completely new picture of the world. Feynman compared it to looking at the clouds: there is no change when you look, but when you look again 15 minutes later it is completely different! Unfortunately this second class of discovery - which is extremely important - does not make headlines." This list of highlights from the first 50 years of CERN inevitably favours discoveries of the first type.

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