What are some of CERN's most notable achievements?
Founded on September 29, 1954, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) houses the 27-km-long Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator. Located in Geneva at France-Switzerland border, CERN is the birthplace of the World Wide Web, opened to public in 1991. In 2012, LHC confirmed the Higgs boson, which won Peter Higgs the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.