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Rolf Heuer is the Director-General of CERN.
Good news for CERN as Council approves the budget for 2014 and the Medium Term Plan
Today, Fermilab announced that Nigel Lockyer will be their new Director. And a very good choice they have made, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer
This week gave us two strong examples of global collaboration in particle physics, says Rolf Heuer
It's been a busy week of good news for CERN
CERN today received the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research shared with theorists Peter Higgs and François Englert
CERN has today received the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research shared with theorists Peter Higgs and François Englert
The LHC featured highly in the High Energy and Particle Physics prizes for 2013 from the European Physical Society
CERN will open its doors to the general public on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 September 2013
Please sign up before 15 May to help with this project
The message we want to pass to our visitors on our open days, and at the inauguration of Passport to the Big Bang, is that “Our universe is yours”
As CERN reaps a bountiful harvest from the LHC’s first three years of running, we are sowing the seeds for a bright future at our flagship facility
Rolf Heuer expresses his thanks to all the people who made this first LHC run such a success
