Science & Technology, 1st prize
Patrick Landmann
Gamma
Gamma
01 January, 1990
Professors Jacques Lefrancois and Jack Steinberger inspect a stylized image of the particles produced by a high-energy collision and identified by particle detector ALEPH behind them.
Particle accelerator LEP (large electron-positron collider), at the centre for research in particle physics CERN.
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