May 1954: Digging the first soil at CERN !?

Yep

"Geneva was selected as the site for the CERN Laboratory at the third session of the provisional Council in 1952. This choice was approved in a referendum in the canton of Geneva in June 1953 by 16539 votes to 7332. On 17 May 1954, the first shovel load of earth was dug on the Meyrin site under the eyes of Geneva officials and members of CERN staff. "

[link to cern50.web.cern.ch]


That's how it all started ??

1973: The discovery of neutral currents in the Gargamelle bubble chamber

1983: The discovery of W and Z bosons in the UA1 and UA2 experiments

1989: The determination of the number of light neutrino families at the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) operating on the Z boson peak

1995: The first creation of antihydrogen atoms in the PS210 experiment

1999: The discovery of direct CP violation in the NA48 experiment.

2010: The isolation of 38 atoms of antihydrogen.

2011: Maintaining antihydrogen for over 15 minutes.

2012: A boson with mass around 125 GeV consistent with long-sought Higgs boson

I think the English expression is "groundbreaking".

Highly appropriate.


Now that's a cool site.

cool photo!