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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. 36: 437].

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Cronin, J.W. (2012). The Discovery of CP Violation. In: Alvarez-Gaumé, L., Mangano, M., Tsesmelis, E. (eds) From the PS to the LHC - 50 Years of Nobel Memories in High-Energy Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30844-4_10

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