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

Lyn Evans was Project Leader for the Large Hadron Collider

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

Violette Brisson played an active part in the discovery of neutral currents; she was head of the Gargamelle group at the Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris

Kjell Johnsen was Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) project leader when the accelerator was built