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16 January 2026

15 January 2026

  • 19:5219:52, 15 January 2026 Felix Bloch (hist | edit) [10,488 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Felix Bloch''' (23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American theoretical physicist<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hofstadter, Robert|author-link=Robert Hofstadter|title=Obituary: Felix Bloch|journal=Physics Today|date=March 1984|volume=37|issue=3|pages=115–116|url=http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v37/i3/p115_s1?bypassSSO=1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130930140642/http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v37/i3/p115_s1?bypassSSO=1|...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:3619:36, 15 January 2026 Willibald Jentschke (hist | edit) [1,480 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Willibald Jentschke''' (6 December 1911 – 11 March 2002)<ref name = WJCV>{{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.1554142|title = Willibald Jentschke|journal = Physics Today|volume = 56|issue = 1|pages = 62–63|year = 2003|last1 = Söding|first1 = Paul|last2 = Wagner|first2 = Albrecht|bibcode = 2003PhT....56a..62S |doi-access = free}}</ref> was an Austrian-German experimental nuclear physicist. During World War II, he made contributions to the wikipedia:German nuclear energ...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 15:4415:44, 15 January 2026 Cornelis Bakker (hist | edit) [1,926 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Dutch physicist (1904–1960)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Cornelis Bakker | image = Prof Cornelis Jan Bakker.jpg | caption = Bakker in 1959 | order = 2nd | title = Director-General of CERN | term_start = 1955 | term_end = 1960 | predecessor = Felix Bloch | successor = ...")
  • 15:2615:26, 15 January 2026 Advisory Committee (hist | edit) [1,921 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "During a meeting of the Scientific Policy Committee, it was decided to propose to the Council the creation of an Advisory Committe to advise the Director-General on matters concerning the utilization of the accelerators by visiting teams from Member States. The Advisory Committee was established in June 1957. It met for the first time in August 1957 in the presence of seven visitors' representatives and ten CERN staff, when it discussed their proposals for Synchro-Cyclot...") originally created as "Advisory committee"
  • 11:1011:10, 15 January 2026 Victor Weisskopf (hist | edit) [1,574 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Victor''' '''Frederick''' "'''Viki'''" '''Weisskopf''' (also spelled '''Viktor'''; September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist and Director-General of CERN from 1961 – 1965.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Who's who in Cern: Victor F. Weisskopf|journal=CERN Courier|date=Winter 1960|volume=1|issue=15|page=2|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1728441}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hine|first1=Mervyn|title=Working with Viki at...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Victor Frederick Weisskopf"
  • 11:0611:06, 15 January 2026 Mark Thomson (hist | edit) [1,096 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Mark Thomson''' (born 28 April 1966) is a British particle physicist. He is a Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Thomson became director-general of CERN on 1 January 2026.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Castelvecchi |first=Davide |date=2024-11-07 |title=New CERN chief pledges to forge ahead with $17-billion supercollider |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Mark Thomson (physicist)"

14 January 2026

  • 21:4021:40, 14 January 2026 Proton Synchrotron and Synchro-Cyclotron Committee (hist | edit) [4,126 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In 1978 the Synchro-Cyclotron Committee (SCC) and Proton Synchrotron Committee (PSC) fused into the PSCC to advise on research at both machines (PS & SC). When the SC was shut down in 1990, the management of matters concerning ISOLDE (which moved to the Booster at the PS) was transferred to the ISOLDE Committee (ISC), and management of Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR) was transferred to the Super Proton Synchrotron Committee (SPSC).")
  • 21:2921:29, 14 January 2026 Proton Synchrotron Committee (hist | edit) [2,068 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In 1976 (end of the bubble chambers period) John Adams and Leon Van Hove rationalized the system, abolishing the committee system based on experimental techniques, and basing it instead on the machine. The Electronic Experiments Committee (EEC) and Track Chamber Committee (TCC) (after 1966 commonly called the Physics I (PH-I-COM) and Physics II (PH-II-COM) Committees) merged to become the Proton Synchrotron Committee (PSC). The PSC examined all experimental proposals f...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:1521:15, 14 January 2026 Research Board (hist | edit) [1,874 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In 1976 the '''Research Board (RB)''' took over from the Nuclear Physics Research Committee (NPRC). The Research Board receives recommendations from all the CERN Experimental Committees, and takes decisions on them. Once approved, the proposals become part of the CERN experimental programme. The Research Board also decides on the accelerator schedules and requests for "Recognized Experiments" at CERN.")
  • 20:4420:44, 14 January 2026 Nuclear Structure Committee (hist | edit) [1,402 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In 1964 Torleif Ericson, together with the head of CERN's NP division Peter Preiswerk, proposed that the Director-General create a Nuclear Structure Committee (NSC). This was set up soon after with Ericson as Chairperson. The aim of NSC was to discuss and to decide on experimental proposals in the field of nuclear structure research; and to provide some co-ordination between the groups inside and outside of CERN that took part in the nuclear structure programme at the Sy...")
  • 20:2820:28, 14 January 2026 Nuclear Physics Research Committee (hist | edit) [3,010 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In 1960 the Director-General John Adams proposed a number of measures to define a global policy for the exploitation of the Synchro-Cyclotron and the new Proton Synchrotron. He decided to create three Committees, one for each experimental technique used: Emulsions : Emulsion Committee (EmC) Electronic : Electronic Experiments Commitee (EEC) Bubble Chambers : Track Chamber Committee (TCC) The recommendations of these three committees were then passed to the Nuclear Physic...")
  • 19:3419:34, 14 January 2026 Emulsion Experiment Committee (hist | edit) [4,503 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In 1960 the Director-General John Adams proposed a number of measures to define a global policy for the exploitation of the Synchro-Cyclotron and the new Proton Synchrotron. He decided to create three Committees, one for each experimental technique used: * Emulsions : Emulsion Committee (EmC) * Electronic : Electronic Experiments Commitee (EEC) * Bubble chambers : Track Chamber Committee (TCC) These three new committees were proposed to replace the Advisory Committee a...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Emulsion Experiement Committee"
  • 16:4116:41, 14 January 2026 Léon Van Hove (hist | edit) [1,827 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove''' (10 February 1924 – 2 September 1990)<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://wiki.arts.kuleuven.be/wiki_nl/index.php?title=Van_Hove,_L%C3%A9on_Charles_Prudent_%281924-1990%29&setlang=nl|title = Van Hove, Léon Charles Prudent (1924–1990)|accessdate = 2 September 2015|website = Bestor – Belgian Science and Technology Online Resources|publisher = KU Leuven}}</ref> was a Belgian physicist and a Director General of CERN.<re...")
  • 16:1116:11, 14 January 2026 HLBC (hist | edit) [55 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber Category:Abbreviations") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 15:3815:38, 14 January 2026 81 cm Saclay Bubble Chamber (hist | edit) [1,607 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''81 cm Saclay Bubble Chamber''' was a liquid hydrogen bubble chamber built at Saclay, in collaboration with the École Polytechnique (Orsay), to study particle physics.<ref name=Harigel40>{{cite book |last=Harigel |first=G.G. |last2=Colley |first2=D.C. |last3=Cundy |first3=D.C. |date=July 1994 |title=Bubbles 40: Proceedings of the Conference on the Bubble Chamber and its...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:1510:15, 14 January 2026 Track Chamber Committee (hist | edit) [5,904 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In 1960 the Director-General John Adams proposed a number of measures to define a global policy for the exploitation of the new Proton Synchrotron. He decided to create three committees, one for each experimental technique used: * Bubble Chambers : Track Chamber Committee (TCC) * Emulsions : Emulsion Committee (EmC) * Electronic : Electronic Experiments Commitee (EEC) These three new committees were proposed to replace the Advisory Committee and Bubble Chamber Committe...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:4209:42, 14 January 2026 Electronic Experiments Committee (hist | edit) [4,741 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In 1960 the Director-General John Adams proposed a number of measures to define a global policy for the exploitation of the Synchro-Cyclotron (SC) and the new Proton Synchrotron (PS). He decided to create three Committees, one for each experimental technique used: Electronic : Electronic Experiments Commitee (EEC) Bubble chambers : Track Chamber Committee (TCC) Emulsions : Emulsion Committee (EmC) These three new committees were proposed to replace the Advisory Committee...")
  • 09:3109:31, 14 January 2026 Detector Research and Development Committee (hist | edit) [2,422 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Detector Research and Development Committee (DRDC-1)''' was set up in July 1990. It received proposals for detector R&D involving people from Member States, other countries, and CERN itself. The committee operated in the same way as the other experimental committees of CERN, and forwarded its recommendations to the Research Board for final decision. It held its last meeting in January 1995. Its role was taken over by the LHC Committee (LHCC) and SPS Committee (SPSC).")
  • 08:5508:55, 14 January 2026 CERN internal organisation 1980 (hist | edit) [1,019 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{| class="wikitable" ! colspan="3" | CERN – 1980 |- ! Fonction / Division ! Abréviation ! Responsable |- | Director-General | — | J. B. Adams |- | Research Director-General | — | L. van Hove |- | Directorate | — | M. C. Crowley-Milling<br/> I. Mannelli<br/> S. Fubini<br/> R. Levy-Mandel<br/> V. Soergel<br/> G. Ullmann |- | Data Handling | DD | P. Zanella |- | Experimental Physics Facilities | EF | A. Minten |- | Experimental Physics | EP | E. Gabathuler |- | Fin...") originally created as "Test"
  • 08:2908:29, 14 January 2026 Synchro-Cyclotron Commitee (hist | edit) [1,869 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Synchro-Cyclotron Commitee (SCC)''' was set up in 1976. At the end of the Bubble Chambers period) John Adams (Executive Director-General) and Leon Van Hove (Director-General for Research) rationalized the system, abolishing the committee system based on experimental techniques, and basing it instead on the machine. The Physics III Committee (PH-III-COM) was renamed the Synchro-Cyclotron Committee. The SCC examined all experimental proposals for the SC and made recomm...")

13 January 2026

  • 17:0017:00, 13 January 2026 Future Circular Collider (hist | edit) [1,377 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Future Circular Collider''' ('''FCC''') is a proposed particle accelerator with an energy significantly above that of previous circular colliders, such as the Super Proton Synchrotron, the Tevatron, and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Benedikt |first1=M. |last2=Zimmermann |first2=F. |date=28 March 2014 |title=The Future Circular Collider Study |url=https://cerncourier.com/the-future-circular-collider-study/ |website=CERN...")
  • 16:4916:49, 13 January 2026 Open Science Steering Board (hist | edit) [1,127 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Open Science Steering Board (OSSB)''' is a cross-departmental body that reports to the Director of Research and Informatics. Its mandate is to oversee, at a strategic level, actions to implement open science, infrastructure, technology services, and outreach and education efforts related to CERN's open science policy. The Board meetings are intended to serve as a forum for reviews, analyzes and assessments of the effective implementation of the CERN Open Science...")
  • 16:1216:12, 13 January 2026 Intersecting Storage Rings Committee (hist | edit) [3,619 bytes] Sreyes (talk | contribs) (Created page with "SR Experiments committee was set up with Jentschke as its Chairperson, five members from outside experimental groups, four members from CERN experimental groups and four members from the ISR Construction Departement. The ISRC's main task was to examine experimental proposals for the ISR and recommend a consistent experimental programme to the Nuclear Physics Research Committee (NPRC). The first meeting of the ISRC was held on 13 January 1969. Unlike the Track Chamber Co...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "ISRC"
  • 15:0615:06, 13 January 2026 Large Electron-Positron Collider Experiments Committee (hist | edit) [4,138 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Large Electron Positron Collider Committe (LEPC)''' was set up with G. Wolf as its Chairperson in 1982. The LEPC was responsible for informing the Research Board (RB) about the experimental programme of the LEP accelerator. It received experimental proposals, organised their public presentation and discussion, and nominated experts, usually chosen from among its members, to evaluate them. After consultation with the machine group of LEP, the committee presented i...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Large Electron Positron Committee"
  • 15:0315:03, 13 January 2026 ISOLDE and Neutron Time-of-Flight Experiments Committee (hist | edit) [6,195 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''SOLDE and Neutron Time-of-Flight Experiments Committee (ISTC)''' was set up in 1999 and the abbreviation was changed to INTC in 2000. It took over the duties of evaluating proposals for experiments on the ISOLDE facility that was formerly in the hands of the Isolde Committee (ISC). In addition it reviews experiments proposed for the Neutron Time of Flight (nTOF) facility which started operating in 2000. The INTC works on a basis of four meetings per year. The committe...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 13:2013:20, 13 January 2026 Large Hadron Collider Committee (hist | edit) [8,582 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Large Hadron Collider Committee (LHCC)''' was set up after the March 1992 General Meeting on LHC Physics and Detectors (ECFA Towards the LHC experimental programme) where expressions of interest were presented for experiments on the LHC. The LHCC makes recommendations to the Research Board (RB). The LHCC also reviews the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) Project. The LHCC is responsible for reviewing the remaining detector R&D projects (RD39, RD42 and RD50) having taken over t...")

8 January 2026

  • 15:2815:28, 8 January 2026 Administration Division (hist | edit) [1,804 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Administration Division (ADM)''' was set up in 1955 to organize CERN's internal administration, centralizing finance, personnel and purchasing services and also other services dealing with arrangements for Council Sessions and Committees, external relations, etc... In 1964 the Administration Division was discontinued and the Administrative Service, Training and Education Section and Personnel Service moved to the newly created Personnel Division while Purchasing O...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 14:2114:21, 8 January 2026 Scientific Policy Committee (hist | edit) [1,116 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "SPC") Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3810:38, 8 January 2026 Department of Theoretical Physics (hist | edit) [10,140 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Department of Theoretical Physics (TH)''', was founded in 1952 under the name "Group of Theoretical Studies" located in Copenhagen, under the guidance of Niels Bohr.<ref>https://home.cern/news/opinion/cern/theory-cern-turns-62</ref> It was then moved to Geneva together with the CERN experimental groups in 1957. In 2005, it was incorporated into the CERN Physics Department as the "Theory Unit". Since 2016 it once again became an independent department, the "Theoretical...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

7 January 2026

  • 13:2113:21, 7 January 2026 OSI (hist | edit) [151 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Organisational Support and Improvement Department) Tags: New redirect Visual edit: Switched
  • 13:1913:19, 7 January 2026 Organisational Support and Improvement Department (hist | edit) [880 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Organisational Support and Improvement Department''' '''(OSI)''', established in 2026, is a CERN-wide resource dedicated to improving organisational processes, strengthening resilience and advancing open research practices. It leads service management, risk and crisis management, and business continuity activities at CERN and coordinates the Organization’s open science, preservation and sustainability efforts. Through multi-functional teams, OSI provides expert...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 13:0713:07, 7 January 2026 CERN Council (hist | edit) [2,076 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''CERN Council''' determines the Organization’s policy in scientific, technical and administrative matters, defines its strategic programmes, sets and follows up its annual goals, and approves its budget. The Council also appoints the Director-General who is the Organization’s chief executive officer and legal representative. The Council typically meets four times a year, under the chairmanship of the President, with the Dir...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 12:4312:43, 7 January 2026 John Adams (hist | edit) [1,304 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Sir John Bertram Adams''' KBE FRS (24 May 1920 – 3 March 1984) was an English accelerator physicist and administrator. Adams is mostly known for his work at CERN and Culham Laboratory. Despite a lack of formal university education, Adams worked for organizations like the Telecommunications Research Establishment and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in the 1940s and early 1950s. He served as acting director and eventually as elected director of CERN, from 19...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 09:3409:34, 7 January 2026 List of directors general of CERN (hist | edit) [3,784 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|None}} {{Infobox official post | post = Director-General | body = CERN | native_name = ''Directeur général'' or ''Directrice générale'' <!--someone with better French than me, please check this--> | flag = | flagsize = | flagborder = | flagcaption = | insignia = | insigniasize = | insigniacaption = | image = Prof Mark Thomson.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | incumbent = Mark Thomson | incumbentsince = 1 January 20...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

6 January 2026

  • 15:0415:04, 6 January 2026 René Brun (hist | edit) [1,298 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''René Brun''' joined CERN in 1973. While working with C. Rubbia at the ISR he developped the HBOOK package. In 1975 he was in charge of the simulation and reconstruction software for NA44 where GEANT1 and GEANT2 were created. In 1981, he joined OPAL at LEP, creating the GEANT3 detector simulation system, also pioneering the introduction of the first workstations like Apollos in Europe. In 1984 he coordinated the development of the PAW (...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 13:1313:13, 6 January 2026 WorldWideWeb (hist | edit) [449 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''WorldWideWeb''' (later renamed '''Nexus''' to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser and web page editor. It was discontinued in 1994. It was the first WYSIWYG HTML editor. The source code was released into the public domain on 30 April 1993. Tim Berners-Lee wrote what would become known as WorldWideWeb on a NeXT Computer during the second half of 1990, while working for CERN. Category:WWW") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 13:0313:03, 6 January 2026 World Wide Web Consortium (hist | edit) [611 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)''' is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee after he left CERN in October 1994. It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science with support from the European Commission, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had pioneered the ARPANET, the most direct predecessor to the modern Internet....") Tag: Visual edit
  • 12:5812:58, 6 January 2026 HTTP (hist | edit) [530 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)''' is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, where hypertext documents include hyperlinks to other resources that the user can easily access, for example by a mouse click or by tapping the screen in a web browser. Category:Abbreviations")
  • 12:5712:57, 6 January 2026 URL (hist | edit) [328 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''uniform resource locator''' (URL), colloquially known as web address, is a reference to a resource on the World Wide Web. A URL specifies the location of a resource on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. For more information, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL Wikipedia]. Category:Abbreviations")
  • 12:5412:54, 6 January 2026 HTML (hist | edit) [232 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Hypertext Markup Language''' (HTML) is the standard markup language[a] for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. For more information, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML Wikipedia]. Category:Abbreviations")
  • 10:1110:11, 6 January 2026 Tim Berners-Lee (hist | edit) [13,606 bytes] Vigen (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|English computer scientist (born 1955)}} {{Pp-move}} {{Pp-vandalism|small=yes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2018}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Sir | name = Tim Berners-Lee | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OM|KBE|FRS|RDI|FRSA|DFBCS|FREng}} | image = LS3 4919 (cropped).jpg | caption = Berners-Lee in 2024 | alt...")
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