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Created page with "The '''PS vodka bottle''' refers to a famous photo of John Adams holding an empty vodka bottle in 1959, a symbolic gift from Soviet scientists in Dubna, Russia.<ref>https://cerncourier.com/a/ps-and-lep-a-walk-down-memory-lane/</ref> thumb|John Adams with the bottle, now containing a polaroid photograph of the 24 GeV pulse ready to be sent to the Soviet Union. The story goes as following: The PS reached its full design energy of 24 GeV (late..."

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The '''PS vodka bottle''' refers to a famous photo of John Adams holding an empty vodka bottle in 1959, a symbolic gift from Soviet scientists in Dubna, Russia.<ref>https://cerncourier.com/a/ps-and-lep-a-walk-down-memory-lane/</ref>
[[File:PS vodkajpeg.jpeg|thumb|John Adams with the bottle, now containing a polaroid photograph of the 24 GeV pulse ready to be sent to the Soviet Union.]]
The story goes as following: The [[PS]] reached its full design energy of 24 GeV (later increased to 28 GeV) during the night of 24 November 1959, and the next morning project leader [[John Adams]] announced the achievement to staff in CERN’s main auditorium. In the famous photo he holds a vodka bottle that he had been given during a trip to the [[JINR|Joint Institute for Nuclear Research]] in Dubna with instructions that the contents should be drunk when CERN passed the Russian Synchrophasotron’s world-record energy of 10 GeV. The bottle in his hand contains a photo of the 24 GeV pulse ready to be sent back to the Soviet Union, marking a moment of scientific competition and camaraderie.

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