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

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

CERN turned 70 on 29 September and hosted a special high-level ceremony on 1 October, here are the highlights

Lyn Evans was Project Leader for the Large Hadron Collider

Check out photo and video highlights from the 17 September event

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

What is happening? Should I avoid the Meyrin site? We answer these questions and more about the CERN70 official event

Can I still register? Which roads and car parks will close when? How do I get my food vouchers? We answer these questions and more ahead of the 17 September event

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