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The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN (see History), , is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border , established in 1954. Member states' contributions to CERN for the year 2008 totalled CHF 1 billion (approximately € 664 million). (Wikipedia)

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Rudi Cerne (born September 26 1958 in Wanne-Eickel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) was a German figure skater and now works as a TV presenter.

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CERN Program Library

The CERN Program Library or CERNLIB is a collection of FORTRAN77 libraries and modules, maintained "as is" by CERN. Its content ranges from more specialized data analysis of high energy physics to general purpose numerical analysis. Lower-level parts of the CERN Program Library are most prominently used by the data analysis software PAW and the detector simulation framework GEANT (which themselves are contained in the CERN Program Library). (read more)

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