atom smasher
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The one-time industrial powerhouse shut the atom smasher by the late 1950s; it sold the surrounding 10 acres in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
But he now sees the atom smasher as a piece of history worth preserving.
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
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
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