Cern collider results and the standard model

The last decade has seen substantial progress in our understanding of the interactions that characterize the physical universe on very small distance scales. This development has been strongly stimulated by use of large, high energy particle accelerators to probe this kinematic regime. The theoretical structure of our understanding is embodied in a quantum field theory with a hierachy of gauge symmetries that is referred to as the Standard Model. The many exciting and technically impressive that have tested and verified this experimental structure are well exemplified by those performed at the proton-antiproton Collider at the European laboratory, CERN, in Switzerland. With essentially all of the basic elements of the Standard Model experimentally confirmed and while we await the beginning of enhanced experimental programs at CERN and at the corresponding laboratory, Fermilab, in the United States, it is appropriateto review the results from CERN and their place in the Standard Model. (AIP)