“…In the 1960s, Frascati hosted a pioneering French-Italian synchrotron light experimental projectcertainly the first in Europe and one of the earliest in the world (Bonnelle & Dhez, 2014;Cauchois et al, 1963a,b;Jaegle ét al., 1967Jaegle ét al., , 1968Jaegle ét al., , 1971. Second, starting in the early 1970s a permanent synchrotron light program became active (Balzarotti et al, 1970(Balzarotti et al, , 1974aTullio & Balerna, 2008;Preger & Murtas, 1997;Savoia, 1988), temporarily putting Frascati ahead of its competitors abroad.…”