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We would never have been able to reach the Supenvorld frontier if we had not been able to introduce “virtual” effects into the study of Galilean reality. Weisskopf led CERN to the centre of global scientific attention. John Bell, of my generation, became famous for discovering how to resolve the “paradox of Einstein-Podolsky and Rosen”, abbreviated as “The EPR paradox”. These giants of Galilean Science of the 20th century signed on the 8th of May, 1962, in Geneva, the constitutive act of the Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture “Ettore Majorana”.
With their British counterparts the Transactions, the Comptes-Rendus are one of the oldest continuously published scientific journals in the world. Since their heyday in the late XKth Century, they have progressively declined in importance as many more media became available, but they are regaining strength after what appeared to be their demise. They now publish about 10,000 pages of scientific original documents each year; we are however not happy at all with their poor performance as regards citation data.
These features were, of course, not exclusive, having spread to the Americas and elsewhere, but could be contrasted with the cultures of the Middle East and Far East which were rising in importance. In most countries of Europe some version of a National Academy existed with varying degrees of competence, ranging from ones that were little more than social clubs to those that had control of a major area of national activity in the humanities and the natural sciences. For scholars from all these countries it was anticipated that the new Academy would provide wider horizons.