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In Switzerland,six miles west of Geneva, lies a collection of laboratories and buildings, and, 1 curious of all, a circular mound of 2 more than 650 feet in diameter. This clusterhas unique importance. It is Europe’s 3 atomic city dedicated to 4 theatom for peaceful purposes.
The strangebuildings 5 the European Council for Nuclear Research,more popularly known, from 6 French initials, as CERN. The council was 7 when a handful of statesmen and scientificexperts 8 in Parisin 1950. Their aim was to “ 9 an organization providing for co-operationamong European states 10 nuclear research of a pure scientific andfundamental character.”
The CERNagreement was 11 in 1953, and work on the atomiccity began in 1954. today CERN’s 12 are among the most modern and the mostdiversified in the world. 13 as the scientific aspect may be, the realsignificance of CERN may lie 14 the thousand people ----the scientists, labworkers, and administrative 15 drawn from the fourteen member nations ---- 16 populate it. British engineers work 17 with Swiss electricians and Yugoslav nuclearphysicists. The 18 languages are French and English, with Germanan unofficial third. But BERN is 19 tower of Babel---- the language of science is 20 and all-embracing.
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