Cessy

Cessy
Town hall
Coat of arms
Cessy
Location within Rhône-Alpes region Cessy
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Gex
Canton	Gex
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Christophe Bouvier
Area1	6.39 km2 (2.47 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	4,342
• Density	680/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	01071 / 01170
Elevation	496–583 m (1,627–1,913 ft) (avg. 526 m or 1,726 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Cessy is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	787	—
1800	805	+2.3%
1806	853	+6.0%
1821	883	+3.5%
1831	980	+11.0%
1836	523	−46.6%
1841	533	+1.9%
1846	527	−1.1%
1851	559	+6.1%
1856	565	+1.1%
1861	526	−6.9%
1866	501	−4.8%
1872	435	−13.2%
1876	435	+0.0%
1881	485	+11.5%
1886	424	−12.6%
1891	424	+0.0%
1896	445	+5.0%
1901	452	+1.6%
1906	422	−6.6%
1911	427	+1.2%
1921	408	−4.4%
1926	426	+4.4%
1931	427	+0.2%
1936	403	−5.6%
1946	384	−4.7%
1954	387	+0.8%
1962	423	+9.3%
1968	509	+20.3%
1975	770	+51.3%
1982	1,068	+38.7%
1990	1,763	+65.1%
1999	2,283	+29.5%
2008	3,660	+60.3%
2012	4,342	+18.6%

Compact Muon Solenoid

Main article: Compact Muon Solenoid

One of the primary points of interest in the quiet community of Cessy, France is the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, located 100 meters below ground at a site on the south-eastern edge of the village. CMS is a high-energy particle physics experiment which observes the result of high energy proton-proton collisions of the CERN laboratory's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator.

Personalities

Tim Berners-Lee lived on Rue de la Mairie in Cessy when he, with Robert Cailliau, invented the World Wide Web.

See also

• Communes of the Ain department
• Compact Muon Solenoid

References

• INSEE