Article: Collision course.(John Ellis physicist of European Organization for Nuclear Research interview)(Interview)

The Geneva research center known as CERN, or the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's largest physics laboratory. Its focus is studying the basic components of matter and how the universe works. Financed by 20 European countries, its annual budget is US$800 million. CERN's largest project to date is a particle accelerator. Based on the collaboration of more then 6,000 scientists around the world, it will cost more than $3 billion and will be finished in 2007. LATIN TRADE Spanish Editor Andres F. Velazquez talked with John Ellis, a CEBN senior physicist and advisor to the lab's general director, about the center's goals and what part Latin America's ...

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