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Presidents of the CERN Council [2] Term President Country 1954–1957 Sir Ben Lockspeiser United Kingdom: 1958–1960 François de Tricornot de Rose France: 1961–1963 Jean Willems Belgium: 1964–1966 Jan Hendrik Bannier Netherlands: 1967–1969 Gösta Funke Sweden: 1970–1971 Edoardo Amaldi Italy: 1972–1974 Wolfgang Gentner Germany: 1975 ...
The term of president was previously 4 years, with it being extended to 6 years following the 1991 constitutional amendment. [12] Two presidents, Yusof and Benjamin Sheares, have died in office. [13] [14] Devan Nair was the first president to resign mid-term. [15] S. R. Nathan was the longest serving president, serving as president for 12 years ...
cern Ursula Rita Bassler (born 1965) is a French-German particle physicist. Bassler was the President of the CERN Council from 2019 to 2021, [ 1 ] and deputy director of National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3), CNRS , from 2014 to 2015.
CERN Council: Term length: 5 years typical length: Precursor: Secretary-General: Formation: October 1954: First holder: Felix Bloch: CERN directors general typically ...
In 2007-2009 he was President of the CERN Council, where one of his main goals was to start up their particle accelerator and start the experiments at Large Hadron Collider. [ 5 ] Åkesson is elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [ 6 ] and the Royal Physiographic Society , [ 7 ] and he was the head of the Particle Physics ...
On 2 September, Tharman was announced as the winner after receiving 70.41% of the vote, with Ng Kok Song receiving 15.72% and Tan Kin Lian receiving 13.87%, and was elected as the ninth president of Singapore. [69] He is the first non-Chinese presidential candidate to win in a contested presidential election in Singapore. [70]
Sellapan Ramanathan DUT PJG [1] [2] (/ ˈ s ɛ l ə p ə n r ɑː m ə ˈ n ɑː ð ə n /; 3 July 1924 – 22 August 2016), [3] often known as S. R. Nathan, was a Singaporean politician and civil servant who served as the sixth president of Singapore between 1999 and 2011. [4]
Hubert Curien (30 October 1924 – 6 February 2005) was a French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN Council (1994–1996), [1] the first chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA) (1981–1984), and second President of the Academia Europæa and a President of Fondation de France.