The Anonymous Widower

CERN And Liverpool University

We were then treated to a lecture, about how Liverpool University fitted into the CERN firmament. Here’s some pictures that I took.

I think I should have made a video.

I can’t find a decent tome about how CERN and Liverpool University started their collaboration, so if anybody has one, send me a link, as the history of science fascinates me. That has led me to two of my heroes being Lise Meitner and Rosalind Franklin.

Nuclear physics at Liverpool dates back to the 1930s, when James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron, was appointed professor. The story of his research at Liverpool and the building of the cyclotron there is described here.

One phrase stands out from the talk.  I think it was Sir Howard Newby, the University Vice-Chancellor, who said.

Research is global.

This is so true and it is why places like CERN must exist.

May 20, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | World | CERN, Liverpool University, Research, Science