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== Microcosm garden == The '''Microcosm garden''' is named [[List of streets at CERN|Léon Van Hove Square]] in honour of [[Léon Van Hove|CERN's Research Director-General from 1976 to 1980]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=17 December 1990 |title=Microcosm |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1723971/files/51-52-1990.pdf |magazine=Bulletin |location=Geneva |publisher=CERN}}</ref> The garden features several large components of old CERN experiments. <gallery> Image:Microcosm_Garden.jpg|The garden view Image:Microcosm 0048.jpg|General view of the Detectors room Image:Microcosm 0017.jpg|Entrance to the exhibition Image:Microcosm 0031.jpg|Introduction to the particles room Image:Big_European_Bubble_Chamber.jpg|The [[Big European Bubble Chamber]] Image:LEP_RF.jpg|An [[RF cavity]] from the [[Large Electron–Positron Collider]] Image:Microcosm_initial_accelerator.jpg|Initial stages of an old [[particle accelerator]] Image:CERN-Introduction to the particles room.jpg|Particles room also features an interactive [[cloud chamber]] - device capable of displaying normally undetectable traces of [[radiation]] Image:Microcosm 0028.jpg|Measuring energy detector Image:Microcosm 0037.jpg|Detectors room Image:Microcosm 0006.jpg|DATA room Image:Microcosm 0011.jpg|LHC control room Image:UA1.jpg|The central section of the [[UA1 experiment]] on display at the Microcosm museum </gallery>
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