Science for All at CERN

2024/05/01 by Barbara Hof · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #International Science and Diplomacy #Research, Science, and Academia #Twentieth Century Scientific Developments

paper · doi:10.1063/pt.pxip.pgns

openalex publication_date 2024/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/21

Abstract

In the 1960s CERN initiated a series of popular-science talks for nonacademic staff in the belief that getting them interested in science was key to its becoming a world-leading laboratory.

Discussions

• Check out Barbara Hof's article in the latest Physics Today on the program of general science lectures that CERN organized for nonscientific lab staff in the 1960s. The goal was to create a broad cult [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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