{"id":229,"count":1,"description":"The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: Organisation europ\u00e9enne pour la recherche nucl\u00e9aire), known as CERN (\/s\u025c\u02d0rn\/; French pronunciation: \u200b[s\u025b\u0281n]; derived from the name Conseil europ\u00e9en pour la recherche nucl\u00e9aire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the Franco\u2013Swiss border and has 23 member states. Israel is the only non-European country granted full membership. CERN is an official United Nations Observer.\r\n\r\nThe acronym CERN is also used to refer to the laboratory, which in 2019 had 2,660 scientific, technical, and administrative staff members, and hosted about 12,400 users from institutions in more than 70 countries. In 2016 CERN generated 49 petabytes of data.\r\n\r\nCERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research \u2013 as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN through international collaborations. CERN is the site of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. The main site at Meyrin hosts a large computing facility, which is primarily used to store and analyse data from experiments, as well as simulate events. Researchers need remote access to these facilities, so the lab has historically been a major wide area network hub. CERN is also the birthplace of the World Wide Web.","link":"https:\/\/loeben.net\/blog\/tag\/cern\/","name":"CERN","slug":"cern","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loeben.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loeben.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loeben.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/loeben.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}