1952: The first meeting of the provisional CERN Council on 15 February 1952, with key people including Sir Ben Lockspeiser, Edoardo Amaldi, Felix Bloch, Lew Kowarski, Cornelis Bakker and Niels Bohr.

“…Lew Kowarski — who originally proposed setting up a laboratory for fundamental research, unlinked to military goal, with a nuclear accelerator — was tasked with organising and setting up an international laboratory, from financial procedures to buildings and workshops” CERN, Early years

Lew was active at Boston University in the years 1972 until his death in 1979. He was often part of the gatherings for the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science at Boston University and there were several occasions where we sat next to each other. In my preparations to visit CERN, he and Viki Weisskopf recommend me to John Bell.