1. China Pursues Major Role in Particle Physics.
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Overbye, Dennis
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COLLIDERS (Nuclear physics) , *HADRON colliders , *TECHNOLOGY , *LARGE Hadron Collider ,CULTURAL Revolution, China, 1966-1976 ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
The article reports on the Beijing collider, developed by Chinese physicists who have, since 1989, been experimenting with particle physics with results that have impacted larger accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider set to open in 2007 at the CERN Laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Many accelerators are scheduled to shut down by 2010, but the Beijing collider will remain. Implications this might have for China, still recovering from Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, are considered.
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- 2006