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CERN Conference on High‐Energy Nuclear Physics

NOV 01, 1958
J. C. Polkinghorne

Geneva is a city accustomed to international conferences but even the Genevans must have been a little surprised to find two conferences on nuclear topics occurring in their midst in one week. One was the East‐West meeting of experts to discuss nuclear test detection. The other was the “Rochester” Conference come to Europe under the hospitable and efficient auspices of CERN. Science was showing its twin faces: applied science, with its inevitable political significance, and pure science, which advances through combining the work of men of many nations.

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J. C. Polkinghorne, Cambridge University.

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