atom smasher

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But he now sees the atom smasher as a piece of history worth preserving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

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

Or, if physicists are lucky, the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider, will blast some new particle into plain view when it comes back online next spring after 3 years of upgrades.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 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

If that were so, the reign of the cyclotron as sciences most powerful and effective atom smasher might be a brief one.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik