III.1 — Particle accelerators, instruments of discovery in physics

The idea of this seminar stemmed from questions by JUAS students who were trying to understand the links between the developments in accelerator science and technology and the advances in nuclear and particle physics that they permitted or conversely that stimulated them. It is by no means an exhaustive history of any of these fields, but rather the presentation of a few selected cases of didactical interest to non-experts in particle or nuclear physics (more information can be found in the bibliography.