(photo J.Aaltonen / HIP)
“The Helsinki Institute of Physics was created in 1996 by merging three institutes in two universities. The form of governance, as a joint institute of two universities, was new in Finland. The main motivation for the new organization was the scope of the activity at CERN, of which Finland became a member in 1991. The purpose was to exploit the opportunities brought by CERN membership in the field of science and technology as efficiently as possible by combining the resources …”
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