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Fabiola Gianotti is the Director-General of CERN.
Fabiola Gianotti looks back at a remarkable 2016 and looks towards CERN's challenges in 2017
As the year draws to a close, I’d like to wish you and your families a very well deserved end-of-year break
I would like to bring you the main news from the last Council week of 2016, which concluded today.
The LHC’s success is not alone. Linac 4 and ELENA have also reached important milestones
Creation of a Physics Beyond Colliders study group to provide input to the next update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Fabiola Gianotti, CERN’s Director-General, shares the news from Council who met this week
Fabiola Gianotti, CERN’s Director-General, explains why knowledge for knowledge’s sake is the most valuable commodity we possess
Last week, Fabiola was at the biennial EuroScience Open Forum, ESOF2016, Europe’s biggest public-facing scientific event
A major topic was the approval of CERN’s Medium Term Plan (MTP) 2017-2021
“Physics for all” ran the cover story on the March issue of Physics World magazine, and it's a sentiment that we can surely all put our weight behind.
CERN's Director General on why the coming years will be crucial for the long-term future of particle physics.
This week saw the announcement of an extraordinary physics result: the first direct detection of gravitational waves.