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CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), based just outside Geneva, is a laboratory essentially devoted to doing basic research in high-energy physics. Established in 1954, it now has a staff of about 3400 people, and its facilities are used by several thousand outside visitors, not only from Europe, but also from the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union, China and the third world.
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The primary source material on which this chapter is based is to be found in the CERN archives, Geneva, and in the archives of the Science and Engineering Research Council in Hayes, Middlesex. The chapter highlights Britain’s dilemmas in the negotiations over the CERN budget which are described far more extensively in my Chapter 10 on finance policy in A. Hermann, J. Krige, U. Mersits, and D. Pestre, History of CERN. Vol. 2. Building and Running the Laboratory (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1990). This chapter contains a comprehensive list of references to the primary sources, so that I have decided to restrict the references given here primarily to important quotations. The interested reader is referred to the more extensive version for more detailed information.
More information on the French, Italian (and German) reasons for joining CERN, and a contrast with British arguments, can be found in Part IV of A. Hermann, J. Krige, U. Mersits and D. Pestre, History of CERN. Vol. 1. Launching the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1987).
See also J. Krige, ‘Why did Britain Join CERN?’, in D. Gooding, T. Pinch, and S. Schaffer (eds), The Uses of Experiment (Cambridge University Press, 1989) pp.385–406.
The quotation is from W. Laqueur, Europe Since Hitler (Penguin, 1982) p.224.
Britain’s figures for gross expenditure on R&D as a percentage of GNP in 1962 are taken from C. Freeman and A. Young, The Research and Development Effort (Paris: OECD, 1965) p.71. The figures for later years are taken from OECD Science and Technology Indicators (Paris:OECD, 1984) p.27.
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Krige, J. (1991). Finance Policy and High Politics in a European Scientific Laboratory: The Conflicts over Financing CERN in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s. In: Hague, D. (eds) The Management of Science. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21275-0_6
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