CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research) is founded in Geneva. It was born from an idea by French physicist Louis de Broglie in the post-war period. Twelve Western European nations ratified the treaty. These were nations that had been at war with each other until just nine years earlier: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Yugoslavia. Unlike similar American government laboratories, the results produced at CERN will always be publicly available.
