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|[[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> | |[[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> | ||
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CERN directors general typically serve 5 year terms beginning on January 1.
List
| In office | Directors General | Country |
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| 1952–1954 | Edoardo Amaldi (Secretary-General)[1] | Template:Flag |
| 1954–1955 | Felix Bloch[2] | Template:Flag |
| 1955–1960 | Cornelis Bakker | Template:Flag |
| 1960–1961 | John Adams (acting director) | Template:Flag |
| 1961–1965 | Victor Frederick Weisskopf | Template:Flag |
| 1966–1970 | Bernard Gregory | Template:Flag |
| 1971–1975 | Willibald Jentschke (co-directors) | Template:Flag |
| John Adams (co-directors) | Template:Flag | |
| 1976–1980 | Léon Van Hove (co-directors)[3] | Template:Flag |
| John Adams (co-directors) | Template:Flag | |
| 1981–1988 | Herwig Schopper[4] | Template:Flag |
| 1989–1993 | Carlo Rubbia | Template:Flag |
| 1994–1998 | Christopher Llewellyn Smith | Template:Flag |
| 1999–2003 | Luciano Maiani | Template:Flag |
| 2004–2008 | Robert Aymar | Template:Flag |
| 2009–2015 | Rolf-Dieter Heuer | Template:Flag |
| 2016–2025 | Fabiola Gianotti | Template:Flag |
| 2026–2030 | Mark Thomson[5] | Template:Flag |
References
- ↑ Rubbia, Carlo (1991). "Edoardo Amaldi: scientific statesman" (in en). CERN Reports 91-09. doi:.
- ↑ Béné, Georges J.; Enz, Charles P.; Lenk, R. (1984). Felix Bloch, 1905-1983 : 1st Director General of CERN (1954-55). CERN. doi:10.17181/CERN.PYMN.ZUHF.
- ↑ Rubbia, Carlo; Soergel, Volker; Jacob, Maurice René Michel (1990). Leon Van Hove, 1924–1990. Geneva: CERN. doi:10.17181/CERN.Z7V2.R44Z.
- ↑ Schopper, Herwig; Gillies, James (2024), "Director-General of CERN", Herwig Schopper, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 119–162, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-51042-7_7, ISBN 978-3-031-51041-0
- ↑ Sample, Ian (2025-12-31). "The man taking over the Large Hadron Collider – only to switch it off". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-01-05.