CERN celebrates 75th birthday of former Director General
The 75th birthday of Robert Aymar – a former Director General (DG) of CERN – was celebrated at CERN last month with a commemorative colloquium. The event, organised on 24 May by current DG Rolf Heuer, featured a number of presentations and was held in the CERN Council Chamber.
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| Former Director General of CERN, Robert Aymar, receiving the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic from Bernard Bigot, Administrator General of French CEA, at the colloquium last month. |
Aymar, who was CERN’s DG between 2004 and 2008, has had a storied career: he has also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, with the CEA and headed up the TORE SUPRA Project. In 1994 he was appointed ITER Director. Since 2009, he has been the Senior Scientific Advisor to the CEA.
Aymar has also received the ‘Distinguished Career Award’ of the Fusion Power Associates Board, the American ‘Department of Energy Exceptional Public Service Award’, and, in 2009, was decorated Commander, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland. At the end of the celebrations at CERN , Aymar was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic.
More information about the event can be found on the conference webpage on indico.
