Bøger af A. Hermann

Covers the building and the running of the CERN laboratory. This book studies the construction and exploitation of the 600 MeV Synchro-cyclotron and the 28 GeV Proton Synchrotron. It considers the setting up of the material and organizational infrastructure which made this possible, and covers the reigns of four Director-Generals.

Describing the history of CERN from its inception in the late 40's up to the mid-60's. The authors have divided these 17-18 years into roughly two successive periods. Volume I deals with the birth and official establishment of the organization and thus covers the years 1949-1954, while Volume II studies the life of the European laboratory during the first twelve years of its existence.