CERN Accelerating science

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

Carlo Rubbia’s name is closely related to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Simon van der Meer, for the work he had done as head of the UA1 collaboration

Ted Wilson was involved in the design of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and played a leading role in its commissioning

Three teams of secondary school pupils from Estonia, Japan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN and DESY