Topic summary
INFN
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
History
INFN was founded on 8 August 1951 to further the nuclear physics research tradition initiated by Enrico Fermi in Rome in the 1930s. The INFN collaborates with CERN, Fermilab and various other laboratories in the world. In recent years it has provided important contributions to grid computing.