Robert Aymar

Robert Aymar (1936 – 23 September 2024[1]) was a French physicist who was the Director General of CERN (2004–2008), serving a five-year term in that role.

[2] After studying at the École Polytechnique, he entered the Corps des Poudres (a former government agency involved in basic and applied research).

In 1977, Aymar was appointed Head of the Tore Supra project, to be constructed at Cadarache, France.

He chaired the international scientific committee that assessed CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and recommended it for approval in 1996.

[6][7] In 2011 he gave a talk The Origin of LEP and LHC at the international symposium on subnuclear physics held in Vatican City.