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Rachel Hirleman, whose house backs up to the atom smasher, said she’d like to see the land redeveloped but has enjoyed watching the seasons change around it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

Officials say they’re on board with standing up the atom smasher, but caution the plan hasn’t been formally approved.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

He arrived in 2013, 2 years after its flagship atom smasher, the Tevatron, shut down, ceding the 2012 discovery of the famous Higgs boson to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2021

The atom smasher near Geneva, Switzerland, is most famous for demonstrating the existence of the Higgs boson in 2012, a discovery that slotted into place the final keystone of the current classification of elementary particles.

From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2021

Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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