DD 1000

When CERN was just five years old, and the Proton Synchrotron was preparing for beams, Director-General Cornelis Bakker founded a new periodical to inform staff what was going on. It was eight-pages long with a print run of 1000, but already a section called “Other people’s atoms” carried news from other labs and regions. Sixty years and almost 600 Couriers later, high-energy physicists are plotting a new path into the unknown, with the update of the European Strategy bringing into focus how much traditional thinking is shifting, with new ideas and strong opinions in abundance.