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This contribution, a personal recollection by the author, is part of a special issue CERN’s accelerators, experiments and international integration 1959–2009. Guest Editor: Herwig Schopper [Schopper, Herwig. 2011. Editorial. Eur. Phys. J. H 36: 437]
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Plass, G. The CERN proton synchrotron: 50 years of reliable operation and continued development. EPJ H 36, 439–454 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2011-20059-0
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