LURE in the 1970s

In France, Yvette Cauchois, Director of the Laboratoire de Chimie Physique in Paris, was the first person who came up with the idea of using synchrotron radiation. The experiment was done in collaboration with Italian scientists at the Frascati synchrotron in 1963 1 Y. Cauchois, C. Bonnelle and G. Missoni, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 257, 409 (1963a) and 1242 (1963b). Google Scholar]]. For a few years, interesting results were obtained by her group and that of Pierre Jaéglé (Orsay) 2 P. Jaeglé, P. Missoni and P. Dhez, Phys. Rev. Lett., 18, 887 (1967).Crossref], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]]. After that, they contacted the laboratory for high-energy physics at Orsay (LAL), hoping to install a beamline on the ACO (electron-positron collider), but their request was turned down.