Cessy


Cessy is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The area was first inhabited by two farming families in the eleventh century, and as the town has grown its agricultural heritage has remained a significant feature, with the populated area surrounded by a vast expanse of fields and an annual agricultural festival.

Population

Compact Muon Solenoid

One of the primary points of interest in the quiet community of Cessy, France
is the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, located 100 meters below ground
at a site on the south-eastern edge of the village. CMS is a high-energy particle physics experiment which observes the
result of high energy proton-proton collisions of the CERN laboratory's Large
Hadron Collider particle accelerator.

Personalities

lived on Rue de la Mairie in Cessy when he, with Robert Cailliau, invented the World Wide Web.