History of CERN, II Volume II - Building and Running the Laboratory, 1954-1965

History of CERN, IIVolume II Building and Running the Laboratory, 1954-1965\nAuthor(s): A. Hermann, L. Weiss, D. Pestre, U. Mersits, J. Krige\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United States\nImprint: North-Holland\nISBN-13: 9780444882073, 978-0444882073\nSynopsis\nThe first volume of the History of CERN (published in 1987) dealt with the launching of the European Organization for Nuclear Research covering the period 1949 to 1954. Volume II continues the history through to the mid-1960's, when it was decided to equip the laboratory with a second generation of accelerators and a new Director-General was nominated. It covers the building and the running of the laboratory during these dozen years, it studies the construction and exploitation of the 600 MeV Synchro-cyclotron and the 28 GeV Proton Synchrotron, it considers the setting up of the material and organizational infrastructure which made this possible, and it covers the reigns of four Director-Gen.