https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (/sɜːrn/; French pronunciation: ​[sɛʁn]; Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), is a research centre that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of **Geneva**, on the France–Switzerland border. It comprises 23 member states;[4] **Israel is the only non-European country with full membership.**[5] CERN is an official United Nations General Assembly observer.[6] The acronym CERN is also used to refer to the laboratory; in 2019, it had 2,660 scientific, technical, and administrative staff members, and hosted about 12,400 users from institutions in more than 70 countries.[7] In 2016, CERN generated 49 petabytes of data.[8] CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research — consequently, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN through international collaborations. CERN is the site of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider...