Neutrons for Sciences : The history of the Institut Laue-Langevin, an exceptionally successful international collaboration

IN 1967, France and Germany agreed to cooperate on the construction and commissioning of a nuclear reactor dedicated to research in physics, chemistry and biology. Thus was born the Institut Laue-Langevin, a project whose aim was to provide research scientists with an extremely intense source of neu...

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Main Author: Jacrot, Bernard (auth)
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Published: EDP SCIENCES 2021
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