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I HAD an unconventional childhood, which involved attending the playgroup and international school at CERN, the fabled particle accelerator and research facility in Switzerland. My dad, Robert ‘Bob’ Orr, was CERN Fellow and Staff Physicist at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (1976-1981), so after-school work visits involved trying not to step in front of a particle beam while he pored over huge photographic negatives of particle collisions.
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