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The present volume covers the story of the history of CERN from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s. The book is organized in three main parts. The first, containing contributions by historians of science, perceives the laboratory as being at the node of a complex of interconnected relationships between scientists and science managers on the staff, the users in the member states, and the governments which were called upon to finance the organization. Parts II and III include chapters by practising scientists. The former surveys the theoretical and experimental physics results obtained at CERN in this period, while the latter describes the development of the laboratory's accelerator complex and Charpak detection techniques.
The first volume of the History of CERN (published in 1987) dealt
with the launching of the European Organization for Nuclear
Research covering the period 1949 to 1954. Volume II continues the
history through to the mid-1960's, when it was decided to equip the
laboratory with a second generation of accelerators and a new
Director-General was nominated. It covers the building and the
running of the laboratory during these dozen years, it studies the
construction and exploitation of the 600 MeV Synchro-cyclotron and
the 28 GeV Proton Synchrotron, it considers the setting up of the
material and organizational infrastructure which made this
possible, and it covers the reigns of four Director-Generals, Felix
Bloch, Cornelis Bakker, John Adams and Victor Weisskopf.
Describing the history of CERN from its inception in the late 40's
up to the mid-60's. The authors have divided these 17-18 years into
roughly two successive periods. Volume I deals with the birth and
official establishment of the organization and thus covers the
years 1949-1954, while Volume II studies the life of the European
laboratory during the first twelve years of its existence.
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