CERN Accelerating science

Ugo Amaldi helped create a European network of cancer therapy centres using beams of ions, in particular carbon ions

Professor Thomson’s five-year mandate will begin on 1 January 2026

Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General, was spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider from 2009 to 2013 and responsible for announcing the discovery of the Higgs boson, alongside the CMS spokesperson

Jürgen Schukraft was the first spokesperson of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

With new measurements of hadron–deuteron correlations, the ALICE collaboration explores the strong interaction of three-body systems at the LHC.

Lyn Evans was Project Leader for the Large Hadron Collider

The CERN Council has announced that Professor Costas Fountas will become its 25th President beginning on 1 January 2025

With its updated analysis methods, the ATLAS collaboration has significantly improved the precision of its measurements of Higgs boson interactions

Lucio Rossi led the group responsible for developing and launching the industrial production of the superconducting magnets for the LHC

Walter Oelert led the team of researchers who produced the world’s first atoms of antihydrogen in 1995

Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in 1989 for an information management system called the World Wide Web

Herwig Schopper was Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, during which time the Large Electron Positron collider was approved and constructed