# @worldscifest on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B2PGoO0F4-W
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2460435-worldscifest-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/2ae5d6a12d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-09-10T15:38:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** WorldScienceFestival (@WorldSciFest) — https://gondola.cc/WorldSciFest

## Caption

"One short trip for a proton, but one giant leap for mankind!" — Physicist Nigel Lockyer, now director of Fermilab, on the first successful proton beam that whipped around the 17-mile (27 km) Large Hadron Collider at @cern #OTD in 2008. .
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#science #proton #cern #largehadroncollider #particle #particlephysics #physics #scienceiscool #history #sciencehistory #onthisday #today #todayinscience #todayinhistory

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## Tags

otd, history, particle, today, largehadroncollider, particlephysics, cern, todayinhistory, scienceiscool, science, todayinscience, sciencehistory, proton, physics, onthisday

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