Fabiola Gianotti Becomes First Woman Physicist to Take the Reins at CERN

speck physicist Fabiola Gianotti has become the first charwoman to head CERN , the governing body based in Switzerland that is home to the Large Hadron Collider . She succeed extroverted theatre director - worldwide Rolf Heuer , who superintend the laboratory ’s operations for the last seven years .

Previously , Gianotti manoeuver the ATLAS collaboration , one of two teams responsible for the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson on July 4 , 2012 . She apace became a favorite figure in the media coverage surrounding that accomplishment — partly because of her gender ( only 20 % of the ATLAS team were woman ) , and for her elegantly understated stylus , but also for her good sense of humor .

For representative : Her use of themuch - derided Comic - Sanstypeface on her Powerpoint slides during that historic announcement was the source of much Internet amusement . Gianotti took the ribbing in stride . She evenmade an April Fool ’s Day decreeto make Comic Sans the official document typeface for all of CERN . Shewas a moon-curser - upfor Time magazine ’s Person of the Year in 2012 .

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Gianotti ’s father is a retired geologist , while her female parent had a passion for music and graphics . Their girl , carry in 1962 , effortlessly straddles both ethnical realm , excelling not just in physics , but also music , cookery , and even trip the light fantastic ( she take as a danseuse as a kid ) . “ Musical harmony is based on forcible principle while in cooking , fixings must be weighed out with preciseness , ” shetold the Guardian in 2014 , when her survival as the next director - superior general of CERNwas announced . “ At the same meter , you have to able to invent , because if one follow the same recipe all the time , you never produce anything fresh . ”

Image : Claudia Marcelloni De Oliveira / CERN

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