 Burhop listed " furtherance of international scientific cooperation " as one of his hobbies . He worked with the University of Edinburgh and the University of Padua to establish a high @-@ altitude cloud chamber on Marmolada that commenced operation in 1953 . In 1957 , he collaborated with Occhialini and C. F. Powell on a five @-@ nation study of K mesons and their interaction with atomic nuclei that went on for several years , and produced a wealth of new results , including the first observation of a double lambda hypernucleus . He spent the 1962 – 63 academic year on secondment to CERN , and was secretary of a committee chaired by Edoardo Amaldi that drew up its policy for accelerator development . The machines the committee recommended , the Intersecting Storage Rings and the Super Proton Synchrotron ( SPS ) were built , and became an important part of physics research in Europe for decades to come . 
