As the 20th century progressed, the world not only faced several crises like wars and revolution but also magnificent breakthroughs in science and invention. One of the major discoveries came in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of all things, called matter.

    As we delved into a deeper understanding of atom and its nucleus, scientific progress was slowed down in the European countries due to World War II. After the War, the world began to come together in different ways to avoid another war and with the confluence of scientists from major European countries, paved the way for a united European laboratory especially in the field of nuclear science.

    Eventually, in the final month of 1951, 12 European countries came together in Paris, and the European Council for Nuclear Research or CERN, an acronym for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, was born. It was seen as a way to share costs....