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[[CERN]] directors general typically serve 5 year terms beginning on January 1.

==List==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!In office
!Directors General
!Country
|-
|1952–1954
|[[Edoardo Amaldi]] ''(Secretary-General)''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rubbia |first=Carlo |year=1991 |title=Edoardo Amaldi: scientific statesman |url=http://cds.cern.ch/record/228364 |journal=CERN Reports |language=en |volume=91-09 |doi=10.5170/CERN-1991-009}}</ref>
|{{flag|Italy }}
|-
|1954–1955
|[[Felix Bloch]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Béné |first1=Georges J. |title=Felix Bloch, 1905-1983 : 1st Director General of CERN (1954-55) |last2=Enz |first2=Charles P. |last3=Lenk |first3=R. |publisher=CERN |year=1984 |doi=10.17181/CERN.PYMN.ZUHF}}</ref>
|{{flag|Switzerland}}
|-
|1955–1960
|[[Cornelis Bakker]]
|{{flag|Netherlands}}
|-
|1960–1961
|[[John Adams (physicist)|John Adams]] ''(acting director)''
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|-
|1961–1965
|[[Victor Frederick Weisskopf]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|-
|1966–1970
|[[Bernard Gregory]]
|{{flag|France}}
|-
|rowspan=2|1971–1975
|[[Willibald Jentschke]] ''(co-directors)''
|{{flag|Austria}}
|-
| [[John Adams (physicist)|John Adams]] ''(co-directors)''
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|-
|rowspan=2|1976–1980
|[[Léon Van Hove]] ''(co-directors)''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rubbia |first1=Carlo |title=Leon Van Hove, 1924–1990 |last2=Soergel |first2=Volker |last3=Jacob |first3=Maurice René Michel |publisher=CERN |year=1990 |location=Geneva |doi=10.17181/CERN.Z7V2.R44Z |display-authors=}}</ref>
|{{flag|Belgium}}
|-
| [[John Adams (physicist)|John Adams]] ''(co-directors)''
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|-
|1981–1988
|[[Herwig Schopper]]<ref>{{Citation |last1=Schopper |first1=Herwig |title=Director-General of CERN |date=2024 |work=Herwig Schopper |pages=119–162 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-51042-7_7 |isbn=978-3-031-51041-0 |last2=Gillies |first2=James|doi-access=free }}</ref>
|{{flag|Germany}}
|-
|1989–1993
|[[Carlo Rubbia]]
|{{flag|Italy}}
|-
|1994–1998
|[[Christopher Llewellyn Smith]]
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|-
|1999–2003
|[[Luciano Maiani]]
|{{flag|San Marino}}
|-
|2004–2008
|[[Robert Aymar]]
|{{flag|France}}
|-
|2009–2015
|[[Rolf-Dieter Heuer]]
|{{flag|Germany}}
|-
|2016–2025
|[[Fabiola Gianotti]]
|{{flag|Italy}}
|-
|2026–2031
|[[Mark_Thomson_(physicist)|Mark Thomson]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sample |first=Ian |date=2025-12-31 |title=The man taking over the Large Hadron Collider – only to switch it off |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/31/large-hadron-collider-head-of-cern-mark-thomson |access-date=2026-01-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

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