List of Directors General of CERN
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Directors General typically serve 5 year terms beginning on January 1. During the 1970s CERN had co-directors.
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
Directors General typically serve 5 year terms beginning on January 1. During the 1970s CERN had co-directors.
- Edoardo AmaldiEdoardo AmaldiEdoardo Amaldi was an Italian physicist.He was born in Carpaneto Piacentino, son of Ugo Amaldi, professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, and Luisa Basini....
1952-1954 - Felix BlochFelix BlochFelix Bloch was a Swiss physicist, working mainly in the U.S.-Life and work:Bloch was born in Zürich, Switzerland to Jewish parents Gustav and Agnes Bloch. He was educated there and at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, also in Zürich. Initially studying engineering he soon changed to physics...
1954-1955 - Cornelis Bakker 1955-1960
- John AdamsJohn Adams (physicist)Sir John Bertram Adams KBE FRS was a British nuclear physicist and administrator.During World War II, Adams worked in the Radar laboratories of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production where he learned physics and engineering on the job. After the war he moved to Harwell and the Atomic Energy...
1960-1961 (Acting Director) - Victor Frederick WeisskopfVictor Frederick WeisskopfVictor Frederick Weisskopf was an Austrian-born Jewish American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr...
1961-1965 - Bernard Gregory 1966-1970
- Willibald JentschkeWillibald JentschkeWillibald Jentschke was an Austrian-German experimental nuclear physicist. During World War II, he made contributions to the German nuclear energy project. After World War II, he emigrated to the United States to work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Ohio, for the Air Force Materiel Command...
1971-1975 - John AdamsJohn Adams (physicist)Sir John Bertram Adams KBE FRS was a British nuclear physicist and administrator.During World War II, Adams worked in the Radar laboratories of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production where he learned physics and engineering on the job. After the war he moved to Harwell and the Atomic Energy...
1971-1980 - Léon van HoveLéon Van HoveLéon Van Hove was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology.-Biography:...
1976-1980 - Herwig SchopperHerwig SchopperHerwig Schopper was born in Lanškroun, Czechoslovakia in 1924. He was involved at CERN as a Research Associate , Division Leader of the Nuclear Physics Division , member of the Directorate responsible for the Co-ordination of the Experimental Programme, Chairman of the ISR Committee at CERN ,...
1981-1988 - Carlo RubbiaCarlo RubbiaCarlo Rubbia Knight Grand Cross is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.-Biography:...
1989-1993 - Christopher Llewellyn Smith 1994-1998
- Luciano MaianiLuciano MaianiLuciano Maiani is a San Marino citizen physicist best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Lee Glashow and John Iliopoulos .-Academic history:...
1999-2003 - Robert AymarRobert AymarRobert Aymar was the Director General of CERN , serving a five year term in that role.-Professional History:He became involved in the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique , the French atomic energy commission, in 1959. Aymar directed the Tore Supra from conception in 1977 through to the start of...
2004-2008 - Rolf-Dieter HeuerRolf-Dieter HeuerRolf-Dieter Heuer is a German particle physicist and the Director General of CERN since 2009.Heuer studied physics at the University of Stuttgart...
2009-present