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Related: About this forumHiggs hunter will be CERN’s first female director
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Fabiola Gianotti, the Italian physicist who first revealed to the world that the Higgs boson exists, will be the next director general of CERN, the laboratory where the elementary particle was discovered.
Gianotti will be the sixteenth person and the first woman to lead the European physics powerhouse, which is based at the Swiss-French border outside Geneva and recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. She was the spokesperson for ATLAS, one of two experiments at CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that discovered the Higgs boson, thus completing the standard model of particle physics.
Fabiola is a superb scientist, led ATLAS to a great discovery and is respected and well-known around the world, says Nigel Lockyer, the director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. She fully understands that high-energy physics is a global enterprise, and CERN is at the centre.
Congratulations to Fabiola and also congratulations to CERN, because I think CERN will be in very good hands, said the current director general, Rolf-Dieter Heuer at a 4 November press conference in Geneva announcing the appointment. Gianotti will take over from Heuer on 1 January 2016
Gianotti will be the sixteenth person and the first woman to lead the European physics powerhouse, which is based at the Swiss-French border outside Geneva and recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. She was the spokesperson for ATLAS, one of two experiments at CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that discovered the Higgs boson, thus completing the standard model of particle physics.
Fabiola is a superb scientist, led ATLAS to a great discovery and is respected and well-known around the world, says Nigel Lockyer, the director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. She fully understands that high-energy physics is a global enterprise, and CERN is at the centre.
Congratulations to Fabiola and also congratulations to CERN, because I think CERN will be in very good hands, said the current director general, Rolf-Dieter Heuer at a 4 November press conference in Geneva announcing the appointment. Gianotti will take over from Heuer on 1 January 2016
http://www.nature.com/news/higgs-hunter-will-be-cern-s-first-female-director-1.16287
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Higgs hunter will be CERN’s first female director (Original Post)
ismnotwasm
Nov 2014
OP
Excellent documentary about CERN, the LHC, and the hunt for the Higgs Boson here;
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2014
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. Here are a couple nice pics.
In the LHC tunnel:
It's 17 miles (27 km) in circumference.
In front of the ATLAS detector (BTW, it's fucking huge):
It's 46 meters long and 25 meters in diameter.
This thread is useless without a Time magazine cover:
ismnotwasm
(42,405 posts)2. Awesome!
Thank you
mercuryblues
(14,894 posts)3. The real
question is what will she be wearing?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125552614
ismnotwasm
(42,405 posts)4. When you're particle physics smart
I wonder what she would say?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. Excellent documentary about CERN, the LHC, and the hunt for the Higgs Boson here;
colsohlibgal
(5,276 posts)6. Great To Hear
As a fellow egghead gal I salute her!
ismnotwasm
(42,405 posts)7. I'm actually ecstatic.
The world of particle physics is moving as fast as it can these days, and there are exciting times. Glad she's up there