European Organization for Nuclear Research and Indian Participation

The European Organization for Nuclear Research is a research organization operating world's largest particle physics laboratory. The organisation was established in 1954 with 20 European member states. Israel is the first and the only non-European country granted full membership. The Organisation has 7 Associate Members and 5 countries have observer status.

The Research Organisation employs around 4000 part and full time employees, hosts around 10000 visiting scientists and engineers from around 600 universities and research facilities.

The Research Organisation functions to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed following international collaborations.

Soon after the laboratory's establishment, its work went beyond the study of the atomic nucleus into higher-energy physics, which is concerned mainly with the study of interactions between particles. Therefore the laboratory is commonly referred to as the European Laboratory for particle physics.

The 1984 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer for the developments that led to the discoveries of the W and Z bosons. The 1992 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to its staff researcher Georges Charpak "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber."

The Research Organisation operates a network of six accelerators and a decelerator. Each machine in the chain increases the energy of particle beams before delivering them to experiments or to the next more powerful accelerator.

In July 2012, its scientists announced the discovery of a new sub-atomic particle that could be the much sought after Higgs boson believed to be essential for formation of the Universe.

In India, Nuclear Power is the fourth-largest source of electricity and as of 2012 we had 20 nuclear reactors in operation and 7 under construction with an installed capacity of 4780 MW and 6100 MW in pipeline, but:

The sadden part of the story is India being “Non-NPT Nuclear Power”, in this Research Organisation since 2002, we are just in the category of observers only and our immediate counterpart's name has been unanimously approved by the council for the process of achieving associate membership, at a meeting on September 17, 2013, which could potentially lead to Pakistan’s associate membership by the end of 2014.

The research opportunities and the scholarships to the nuclear scientists and research students are being offered depending upon the status of the member countries and our visiting scientists and engineers are not getting the opportunities ……. but who cares~~~~~~