Fabiola Gianotti Becomes First Woman Physicist to Take the Reins at CERN
Particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti has become the first woman to head CERN, the organization based in Switzerland that is home to the Large Hadron Collider. She succeeds outgoing director-general Rolf Heuer, who oversaw the laboratory’s operations for the last seven years. Previously, Gianotti headed the ATLAS collaboration, one of two teams responsible for the discovery…
