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Rolf Heuer is the Director-General of CERN.
Now the dust has settled, we can take stock of the momentous events of 4 July
Over 800 people attended the Tevatron Impact symposium at Fermilab on 11 June to celebrate the legacy of the accelerator
The CERN relay race dates back to 15 October 1971 when 21 pioneering teams set off to pound the pavements of CERN
By keeping the Code of Conduct fresh in our minds, we can all contribute to ensuring that CERN remains a great place to be
Safety is a priority for CERN. That is a message I conveyed in my New Year’s address
Serbia joins Israel as an associate member in the pre-stage to CERN membership, and council sends fact-finding missions to other applicant countries
The explosion of interest around the world in our science brings an opportunity to drive science up the popular and political agendas
Actively transferring know-how from the world of basic science to the world of applied research needs to be made more systemic
The LHC is already over a week into its 2010 run, and the start of physics at 7 TeV is just around the corner