Scientific information service

Function - CERN Council and its Committees

Function - Management

• Directors-General
• Directorate
• Committees
• CERN publications

Function - Theory

Function - Accelerators (construction and running)

• Synchro-Cyclotron, SC
• Proton Synchrotron, PS
• Intersecting Storage Rings, ISR
• Super Proton Synchrotron, SPS
• Large Electron-Positron collider, LEP
• Large Hadron Collider, LHC

Function - Experimental physics

• Experimental Physics division
• Experiments, Detectors and Committees:
  • Synchro-Cyclotron, SC
  • Proton Synchrotron, PS
  • Intersecting Storage Rings, ISR
  • Super Proton Synchrotron, SPS
  • Large Electron-Positron collider, LEP
  • Large Hadron Collider, LHC
  • Compact Linear Collider, CLIC

Function - Engineering

Function - Information Technology

Function - Supporting Services, Technical and Education

• Personnel
• Health and Safety
• Public Information, Administration and Documentation

Council and Committee of Council, C & CC

Scientific Policy Committee, SPC

Full texts

Finance Committee, FC

Audio recordings of meetings,
CC, FC, SPC, ECFA, etc

Finance Committee Working Group on Pension Policy,
FC-WG-PP

Finance Committee Working Group on Health Insurance, FC-WG-HI

European Strategy Session of Council

See also :

Electronic records :

1.02.01

CERN Directors-Generals
(First series):
- Felix Bloch,
- Cornelis J. Bakker,
- John Adams, Acting DG, DG
  and Lab II,
- Victor F. Weisskopf,
- Bernard Gregory,
- Willibald Jentschke, Lab I

Catalogue

1.02.02

Victor F. Weisskopf,
Director-General (1961 - 1965)

Catalogue

1.02.03

Leon Van Hove,
Director-General for Research (1976 - 1980)

Catalogue

1.02.04

John B. Adams,
- Acting Director-General
  (Apr.-Jul 1960)
- Director-General
  (Jul. 1960 - Jul. 1961)
- Director-General Lab II
  (1971 - 1975)

Catalogue

1.02.05

Herwig F. Schopper,
Director-General (1981 - 1988)

56 lm
C1021 - D0458

Catalogue

1.02.06

Carlo Rubbia,
Director-General (1989 - 1993)

56 lm
E0121 - E1331

Catalogue

1.02.07

Christopher Llewellyn Smith,
Director-General (1994 - 1998)

31 lm
E1341 - F0529

Catalogue

1.02.08

Luciano Maiani,
Director-General (1999 - 2003)

60 lm
F0531 -

Catalogue

See also :

Electronic records :

1.03.01

Directors of Administration

1952 - 1994

64 lm
P0121 - P1119

Catalogue

1.03.02

(Rudolf) Frans Heyn,
Director of Administration (1981 - 1988)

1951 - 1989

16 lm
P1121 - P1459

Catalogue

1.03.03

Directors of Research

1967 - 1998

13 lm
R0501 - R0718

Catalogue

1.03.04

Giorgio Brianti,
Technical Director (1981 - 1989)
Associate Director for Future Accelerators (1990 - 1993)

1972 - 1994

5 lm
I0211 - I0305

Catalogue

1.03.05

Mervyn G. N. Hine,
Director of the 300 GeV Lab Project (1966 - 1968)
Director of the Department of Applied Physics (1966 - 1971)

1953 - 1987

18 lm
G0121 - G0454

Catalogue

1.03.06

Robert Lévyy-Mandel,
Director (1976 - 1980)
Leader of the Site Installation group (1971-1980) and Directorate member for Site Management and Budget Planning

1967 - 1983

0.40 lm
X0301 - X0304

Catalogue

1.03.07

Günther Plass,
Director of Accelerators (1990 - 1993)

1953 - 1981

8 lm
G1131 - G1256

Catalogue

1.03.08

Günther Ullman,
Director (1978 - 1980)

1956 - 1982

22 lm
I0551 - I1008

Catalogue

1.03.09

Legal Service,
Directorate Services Unit, DSU-LS

1952 - Present

3.60 lm
W0711 - W0743

Catalogue

1.03.10

CERN Utility Study and Second CERN Utility Study, CUS and SCUS

1973 - 1985

1.50 lm
W0121 - W0134
V0421

Catalogue

1.03.11

Relations with Member and Non-Member States
Directorate Services Unit, DSU-DO

1955 - 2002

3 lm
J0811 - J0837

Catalogue

1.03.12

Strategic Planning Unit
Directorate Services Unit, DSU-SPU

1953 - 1980

2.20 lm
Z1311 - Z1344

Catalogue

1.03.13

VIP Office
Directorate Services Unit, DSU-VIP

1961 - 2001

1 lm
W0511 - W0513

Catalogue

1.03.14

Maximilian Metzger
Secretary General

2004 - 2008

10 lm
M0101 - M0138

Catalogue

1.03.15

Kjell Johnsen

1952 - 2007

Catalogue

See also :

Electronic records :

Research Board

Full texts

CERN Review Committee, CRC

European Committee for Future Accelerators, ECFA

Full texts

European Synchrotron Radiation Project, ESRP

High Energy Analysis group, HERA

Nuclear Physics Research Committee, NPRC

Scientific Conference Secretariat, SCSA

Miss E.W.D. Steel,
Head of the Scientific Conference Secretariat and Secretary of the CERN School of Physics

Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum, TREF

Working Group on the Review of the CERN Purchasing Policy and Procedures, RWGPPP

See also : Section Experimental Physics - Experiments, Detectors and Committees

Electronic Records :

CERN Annual reports

Full texts

CERN Bulletin

Full texts

CERN Courier

Full texts

Experiments at CERN

Yellow reports

Full texts

CERN Annual Accounts

See also : CERN Press office and Library

Electronic records :

CERN Theory Division, T, TH and PH-TH

Full texts

CERN Theory Group, Copenhagen

See also :

Electronic records :

SC Division

See also : Early accelerators and detectors were often incorporated into subsequent equipment, so information about them can also be found in records relating to later accelerators

Electronic records :

PS and MPS Divisions

Karl H. Reich

See also : Early accelerators and detectors were often incorporated into subsequent equipment, so information about them can also be found in records relating to later accelerators

Electronic records :

Accelerator Research, AR
ISR Division and ISR Committee, ISRC

See also : Early accelerators and detectors were often incorporated into subsequent equipment, so information about them can also be found in records relating to later accelerators

Electronic records :

SPS Division,
300 GeV (1969-1970),
LabI and LabII (1971-1975),
SPS (1976-1989),
SL (1990-1997)

SPS and LEP Division miscellaneous, SL

300 GeV Lab programme

Pierre C. Troendle

See also : Early accelerators and detectors were often incorporated into subsequent equipment, so information about them can also be found in records relating to later accelerators

Electronic records :

LEP and LEP experiments Committee, LEPC

Hans W. Isch
LEP-PC notes

See also : Early accelerators and detectors were often incorporated into subsequent equipment, so information about them can also be found in records relating to later accelerators

Electronic records :

Large Hadron Collider, LHC
LHC Division,
LHC Project Office,
Accelerator Technology Division, AT

See also :

Electronic records :

Experimental Physics Division, EP
Track Chamber, TC,
TC - Laboratory I group, TC-L,
TC Committee, TCC (1961-1976),
Department of Physics, D.Phys.II (1967-1985),
Experimental physics Facilities Division, EF (1976-1981),
Experimental Physics, EP, ECP (1976-1997),
Nuclear Physics and Experimental Physics, NP-EP (1955-1989)

Yves Goldschmidt-Clermont,
Deputy leader of the Data Handling Division, DD (1960 - 1964)
Deputy leader of the Experimental Physics Division, EP

William Lock,
Group leader of the Nuclear Physics Division, NP and head of Experimental Physics Division, EP

Nuclear Physics Division, NP

Experimental Physics Division, EP
Printer's proofs

Brian Powell ,
The Hough-Powell Device, HPD

P. Musset,
Neutral currents

K. Winter

Georges Charpak

See also :

Electronic records :

Electronics Experiments Committee,EEC
Physics I Committee, Phys-I-COM
PS Committee, PSC
SC Committee, SCC
PS and SC Committee documents, PSCC

Nuclear Structure Committee, NSC

Emulsion Experiments Committee, EmC

Muon g-2 experiment

ISOLDE (pre-1990),
Isotope Separator On-Line Detector

See also : NPRC Committee and ISOLDE (post-1990)

Electronic records :

CDHS Experiment,
CERN-Dortmund-Heidelberg-Saclay neutrino experiment

Axial Field Spectrometer, AFS

Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber, HLBC

ISOLDE (post-1990),
Isotope Separator On-Line Detector Committee

Hydrogen Bubble Chamber, HBC

Nuclear Physics Apparatus Division, NPA

Gargamelle

See also : PS and SC Committee (PSCC)

Electronic records :

ISR discussion meetings,
between experimentalists and theorists

See also : ISR Committee

Electronic records :

SPS and Lear Committee, SPSLC

WA9 and NA8 experiment,
West Area experiment 9
North Area experiment 8

UA1 collaboration,
Underground Area 1 collaboration

UA2 collaboration,
Underground Area 2 collaboration

ERASME

SPS Committee, SPSC

CHARM I and CHARM II,
CERN Hamburg-Amsterdam-Rome-Moscow collaboration

Experimental Physics division:
Rapid Cycling Bubble Chamber,
EF-EP-RCBC
European Hybrid Spectrometer,
EP-EHS

Big European Bubble Chamber, BEBC, D.Phys.II

Omega Spectrometer

NOMAD Collaboration,
Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector

NA31 Experiment,
North Area 31

Scientific Committees,
LEPC, SPSC, SPSLC

See also :

Electronic records :

Large Electron-Positron Collider experiments, LEP

DELPHI, Detector with Lepton, Photon and Hadron Identification

L3 Experiment, L3 Collaboration

See also : LHC Collection also contains LEP Committee documents

Electronic records :

ATLAS collaboration, A Toroidal LHC Apparatus

LHC Committees, LHCC, RDDC, LERB, LCRB, LDRB

See also :

Electronic records :

CLIC Notes, Compact Linear Collider Notes

See also :

Electronic records :

1.22.01

Engineering Division, ENG

1.22.02

Mechanical Technologies Division, MT

See also :

Electronic records :

Information Technology Division, IT
Scientific and Technical Division, STS,
Data Handling Division, DD
Computing and Networks Division, CN

Lew Kowarski,
Leader of the Data Handling Division, DD (1960 - 1963)
Leader of the Scientific and Technical Division, STS (1955 - 1959)

The World Wide Web, WWW

Computer Newletters

Data Handling Division, DD
Divisional reports

David O. Williams,
Leader of the Data Handling Division, DD (1989)
Leader of the Computing and Networks Division, CN (1990-1996)

See also : Yves Goldschmidt-Clermont

Electronic records :

Charles E. Rufer,
Head of the Personnel Department (1982 - 1985)

CERN Telephone lists, staff lists, etc

Human Resources documents, HR

See also :

Electronic records :

Health Physics,
Internal reports

See also :

Electronic records :

Heads of Public Information Office, PIO
- Edwin N. Shaw
- Roger Anthoine

Scientific Information Service, SIS

CERN Translation service, TRANS

Film scripts collection

Press cuttings

Press releases

Library Committee

CERN History Study, CHS

CERN History Project, CHIP

Oral history collection

John D. Lawson,
The early history of British Synchrotrons

CERN Users guide

Exhibitions at CERN

Technology Transfer

See also :

Electronic records : Press Office

Miscellaneous