Brochure

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Brochure

• Technology Transfer at CERN
• Sandra Pierson

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Technology Transfer at CERN

• At CERN, physicists build large machines to study
  high energy particles.
• Sometimes the machines they make can be used by
  people in different ways.

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Some examples of TT

• The WWW was invented by physicists at CERN to
  communicate with one another from all over the
  world about projects at CERN
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• But people use the WWW to gather information
  about many things and also to communicate with
  one another.

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Another TT example

• Detectors and accelerators were used at CERN to
  study the properties of colliding high-speed
  particles.
• But hospitals can use detectors and accelerators
  to see inside of people in order to diagnose
  illnesses, and also to treat illnesses by killing
  tumors inside of people without surgery.

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Activity

• Each TT item can be put onto 2 cards. One card
  has physics research and development
  applications, and the other card has applications
  to the public. Students have to match up the 2
  cards i.e., match up the technology with its
  application.
• To make this game easier, each card could be
  coded with the acronym of the TT on the back
  side. Then the task would be to see if the
  student can decide which is the physics R D
  card and which is the TT card. Or, it could just
  be a case of matching by making a pair of cards,
  such as a pair of CRYSTAL CLEAR cards. The R D
  card could have a little picture of the device
  and the TT card could have a picture of the
  application.