atom smasher

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But he now sees the atom smasher as a piece of history worth preserving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

David Sheppard and Avante Brown were canvassing residents for a solar company recently when they stumbled onto the atom smasher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

Published last week in Physical Review Letters, the method should be widely useful, including in making predictions to be tested at the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2022

The atom smasher near Geneva, Switzerland, is most famous for demonstrating the existence of the Higgs boson in 2012, a discovery that slotted into place the final keystone of the current classification of elementary particles.

From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2021

Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson