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CERN is guest of honour at international inventions exhibition
Geneva, Switzerland, 18 April 2007: The world’s largest particle
physics laboratory,
CERN,
is guest of honour at the annual Salon International des Inventions in Geneva
from 18-22 April this year. Better know for its advances in understanding the
Universe, CERN is also a hotbed of innovation, giving rise to new technologies
in areas ranging from medicine to IT. The World Wide Web, invented at CERN in
1990, is the best known CERN technology, but there are many more that the public
will be able to explore on the CERN stand.
For the Salon, CERN has teamed up with ten companies that have spun off
technologies and ideas from the Laboratory. CERN’s stand will be dedicated to a
presentation of the Laboratory and its current flagship project, the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to start-up later this year. Each of the
technologies featured will be highlighted on the stand, along with the companies
that have put them into more general use. This will allow visitors to trace the
path from basic research to practical application from start to finish.
One example is Medipix. A particle detection technology that has found
applications in medical imaging. Visitors to the salon will be able to see a
Medipix detector in action on the CERN stand, and use it to image the particles
emitted by everyday objects.
The LHC will be the world's largest and most complex scientific instrument when
it switches on in 2007. Experiments at the LHC will allow physicists to complete
a journey that started with Newton's description of gravity. Gravity acts on
mass, but so far science is unable to explain why the fundamental particles have
the masses they have. Experiments at the LHC may provide the answer. LHC
experiments will also probe the mysterious missing mass and dark energy of the
Universe – visible matter seems to account for just 4% of the total mass of the
Universe. They will investigate the reason for nature's preference for matter
over antimatter, and they will probe matter as it existed at the very beginning
of time.
"CERN’s main mission is fundamental science, understanding our universe,"
explained CERN Director General Robert Aymar, "but we also play important roles
in developing new technologies, training innovators of the future, and in
promoting international collaboration."
The full list of technologies and companies linked to the CERN stand at the
Salon is:
PXL industries (France) détection des fuites (Leak welds device)
http://www.pxl-sa.com/
SpinX technologies (Suisse) microfluidics (application pour la découverte de
nouveaux médicaments)
http://www.spinx-technologies.com/
Panalytical (Pays Bas) détecteurs pour des applications médicales
http://www.panalytical.com/
Ijspeert Innovative Technologies (Suisse) dispositif de positionnement
(positioning device)
http://www.ijspeert.ch/
Raytest (France) Scanneur TEP pour petits animaux (small animal PET scanner)
http://www.raytest.fr/
Techtra (Pologne) électronique (high density PCBs)
http://www.techtra.pl
Géodésie Industrielle SA (Suisse) techniques de géométrie
http://www.geodesie.com
Maat Gknoledge (Espagne) informatique pour la mammographie (mammogrid)
http://www.maat-g.com
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