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

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

Herwig Schopper was Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, during which time the Large Electron Positron collider was approved and constructed

Carlo Rubbia’s name is closely related to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Simon van der Meer, for the work he had done as head of the UA1 collaboration

Ted Wilson was involved in the design of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and played a leading role in its commissioning

Violette Brisson played an active part in the discovery of neutral currents; she was head of the Gargamelle group at the Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris

Find out how CERN is celebrating the 100th birthday of former Director-General Herwig Schopper, and how you can be involved