Letters

Acronym oddities

When editing LEPnews in the 1980s, chronicling the construction of the Large Electron Positron collider (LEP), I found that this acronym could also mean Laboratorio Emilio Picasso, named after the project leader. As for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), these letters are also the first-name initials of Lyndon Evans, Herwig Schopper and Carlo Rubbia – three who envisaged, inspired and realized this giant undertaking.

Simon Newman, Slough, UK.