Benefits of fundamental research for society

Collection of success stories

Success stories

TITLE
PUBLISHER
ACADEMIC PARTNER
INDUSTRY PARTNER

Medical

CERN scientists develop a ventilator
CHIPP
LHCb, CERN
Hopital La Tour à Meyrin and from the Lausanne and Geneva university hospitals

Medical

3D colour X-ray scanner using CERN technology
CERN
CERN-MIDIPIX
CHUV, MARS Bioimaging New Zealand

Environment

Solar cells for heating
Symmetry
CERN

Environment

Superconductivity for enery transmission
phys.org/news

Environment

CLOUD experiment for climate modelling
swissinfo
CERN

Engineering

Touchscreen
CERN Bulletin
CERN

Citizen Science

Particle Physics for everyone
CHIPP
CERN, LHCb, ATLAS, CMS, ALICE

Science for peace

Research as a peace project
CHIPP
SESAME, PSI