What are some of CERN's most notable achievements?
Founded on September 29, 1954, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is the world's largest particle physics laboratory. Located in Geneva at the French-Swiss border, CERN is the birthplace of the World Wide Web, opened to public in 1991. In 2012, scientists using the world's largest atom smasher confirmed the "God particle" Higgs boson, which gives matter its mass.