This year, on the occasion of what would have been the 120th birthday of Felix Bloch, first Director-General of CERN and 1952 Nobel laureate in physics, the physicist’s family generously donated his Nobel prize medal to CERN

An exhibition of old black-and-white photos at Geneva’s Bains des Pâquis retraces some of CERN’s history

Gian Giudice is Head of CERN’s Theoretical Physics department

Rolf Heuer was CERN Director-General during an era when multiple open science initiatives were launched by the Organization

Ugo Amaldi helped create a European network of cancer therapy centres using beams of ions, in particular carbon ions

Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General, was spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider from 2009 to 2013 and responsible for announcing the discovery of the Higgs boson, alongside the CMS spokesperson

Jürgen Schukraft was the first spokesperson of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

Lyn Evans was Project Leader for the Large Hadron Collider

Lucio Rossi led the group responsible for developing and launching the industrial production of the superconducting magnets for the LHC

Walter Oelert led the team of researchers who produced the world’s first atoms of antihydrogen in 1995