Speaker
Maurizio Vretenar
(CERN)
Description
This lecture traces the history of particle accelerators from the pioneers in the 1930s to the modern world of international mega-projects. Key developments are given in scientific and historical context, and qualitative descriptions are given of accelerator breakthroughs that have allowed orders of magnitude improvements in the course of a few decades.
Author
Maurizio Vretenar
(CERN)
