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CERN: the view from inside

27 Jan 2009

The switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN on 10 September 2008 was watched by an estimated 1bn people. As CERN starts 2009 under new management and facing a major repair job, Matthew Chalmers catches up with the man who took the LHC to the world: CERN’s head of communications, James Gillies

  James Gillies How do you get a billion people excited about a giant superconducting proton c

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Matthew Chalmers is a writer based in Bristol, UK
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