About Robert Aymar
Lived 1936 – 2024 (aged 87–88). Robert Aymar was a French physicist.
Robert Aymar (1936 – 23 September 2024 ) was a French physicist who was the Director General of CERN (2004–2008), serving a five-year term in that role.
Life and career Aymar was born in 1936 in France. He also chaired the External Review Committee that was set up by the CERN Council in December 2001 to review the CERN programme.
Aymar succeeded Luciano Maiani as Director-General of CERN in January 2004. He was honoured in 2006 with the International Global Energy Prize, in 2011 with the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic. In 2011 he gave a talk The Origin of LEP and LHC at the international symposium on subnuclear physics held in Vatican City.
Aymar died on 23 September 2024, at the age of 88.
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Who was Robert Aymar?
French physicist (1936–2024)
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Robert Aymar was born in 1936 in Oran Department.
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Robert Aymar died on 23 September 2024 in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon.
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Robert Aymar was a physicist.
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Robert Aymar was French.
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