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The 12 founding member states of CERN in 1954. [13]The convention establishing CERN [14] was ratified on 29 September 1954 by 12 countries in Western Europe. [15] The acronym CERN originally represented the French words for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire ('European Council for Nuclear Research'), which was a provisional council for building the laboratory, established by 12 ...
Presidents of the CERN Council [2] Term President Country 1954–1957 Sir Ben Lockspeiser United Kingdom: 1958–1960 François de Tricornot de Rose France: 1961–1963 Jean Willems Belgium: 1964–1966 Jan Hendrik Bannier Netherlands: 1967–1969 Gösta Funke Sweden: 1970–1971 Edoardo Amaldi Italy: 1972–1974 Wolfgang Gentner Germany: 1975 ...
About 8% of the workforce are of Russian nationality. In June 2022, CERN said the governing council "intends to terminate" CERN's cooperation agreements with Belarus and Russia when they expire, respectively in June and December 2024. CERN said it would monitor developments in Ukraine and remains prepared to take additional steps as warranted.
Spacewalk suffered a 10- minute delay when a strap got stuck in the hatch preventing depressurization of the airlock. The two spacewalkers completed all the task and at 17:30 hours, Luca Parmitano opened a valve to start the flow of CO2 gas to AMS and contacted CERN to turn the experiment on. AMS passed all test and worked flawlessly.
The list is first compiled from the SPIRES database, then missing information is retrieved from the online version CERN's Grey Book. The most specific information of the two is kept, e.g. if the SPIRES database lists December 2008, while the Grey Book lists 22 December 2008, the Grey Book entry is shown.
Swiss-based CERN, best known for its studies in particle physics and its Large Hadron Collider, will not renew its cooperation agreement with Russia when it ends on November 30 2024.
In office Directors General Country 1952–1954 Edoardo Amaldi (Secretary-General) [1] Italy 1954–1955 Felix Bloch [2] Switzerland 1955–1960 Cornelis Bakker Netherlands
Hubert Curien (30 October 1924 – 6 February 2005) was a French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN Council (1994–1996), [1] the first chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA) (1981–1984), and second President of the Academia Europæa and a President of Fondation de France.