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ILL founding papers
Founding papers of the ILL and its High Flux Reactor
In 1971 and 1972, 20 founding papers were published by teams from both the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) involved in the design and building of the High-Flux Reactor (RHF). They were published in the now defunct and sold out CEA newsletter: Bulletin d'Informations Scientifiques et Techniques du CEA (BIST)
R. Juhel et G. Reynes, Ed. Dunod S.A., Paris and Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Digital version published with the approval of the CEA (email of 10 Oct. 2016, from Anne-Sophie Bayle - Intellectual Property Lawyer, Head of intellectual property rights and computing sector).
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Recent Journals covers
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Founders and pioneers
The patrons When the French and German governments were seeking a name for the Institute in the 1960s, they decided to honour French and German scientists distinguished for their contributions not only to science but to society in general. Their choice fell upon France's Paul Langevin and Germany's...
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Techniques
The following pages describe the evolution of techniques at the ILL. Many of the latter were initiated at the ILL but testimonials, photos or documents are often rare, at least for the first 30 years of the ILL. Understanding how we arrived at current techniques is instructive and it is useful to d...
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Prizes and honours
On this page, we present some of the famous (and not so famous) prize-winning scientists who have worked at or collaborated with the ILL over the years. This is by no means an exhaustive list but should give you some idea of the sheer wealth of ground-breaking research to which the ILL and its neutr...
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Books and other historical accounts
Bernard Jacrot's book "Neutrons for Science: the story of the ILL, a very successful international cooperation" English version of Bernard Jacrot's book "Des neutrons pour la science", 2006, EDP Science.Translation by Ronen Ghosh,"2018 Update: The ILL between 2005 and 2018" by Bill Stirling and Chri...