Large Hadron Collider and Oxfordshire

Congratulations to all at CERN with the circulation of two beams of protons after the successful restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Having lived in Geneva for some time (my husband is a particle physicist), it's quite astounding that many years later I am sitting in Oxfordshire and writing this blog post using the World Wide Web - another technological advance from CERN.

Another Oxfordshire connection? We should not forget that the county hosts two research centres working on experiments at the LHC: Oxford University (ATLAS and LHCb teams) and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (ATLAS, CMS and LHCb teams).

One of the great accelerator pioneers of all time, Sir John Adams, also worked at both Harwell and Culham in between his stints as Director General of CERN. Today, we have the legacy of the John Adams Institute in Oxford.

If you want to follow further progress at the LHC, go to http://twitter.com/cern or http://public.web.cern.ch/public/