Sub-fonds CERN-ARCH-DG-CR-1-01 to CERN-ARCH-DG-CR-4-257 - Carlo Rubbia

504 boxes; 1,747 Items; 56 linear metres

Working as a Senior Physicist at CERN since 1961, Carlo Rubbia's name is related to the discovery of the W and Z Particles. In 1984 he, together with Simon van der Meer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for the work he had done as Head of the UA1 Collaboration. From 1970 to 1988 Carlo Rubbia spent one semester per year at Harvard University as Higgins Professor of Physics. In January 1989 he was appointed Director-General of CERN. In November of Carlo Rubbia's first year as Director-General the inauguration of LEP, the Large Electron Positron Collider, took place after eight years construction under his predecessor Herwig Schopper. During his mandate as Director-General the four LEP experiments (ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL) gave their first important scientific results. Continued development in relation to the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Project culminated in the presentation of the LHC Project and its experimental programme to CERN Council in December 1993. (The project was approved in December 1994).

Directorate Service Unit

These documents represent the filing system of Carlo Rubbia during his period as Director-General of CERN. They cover all aspects of CERN's activities, and include:

• Correspondence
• Meetings of Directorate, Management Board, etc,
• Official visits
• Personnel matters
• Inaugurations of LEP and Microcosm
• Seminars, Conferences, Committees of LHC, ECFA, ICFA, SPSC…

Approximately 10 linear metres of material comprising (un-annotated) copies of Council and other Committee documents (CC, FC, SPC, LEP, LHCC) were destroyed.

No further accruals are expected.

The original order has been preserved. There was originally no classification plan, but for the purposes of cataloguing the records have been divided into four major groups. Within these groups the files were arranged in (more or less) chronological order. Where one exists, the original reference number (a simple running number) has been preserved in the RN field of the CERN Archives database. Some files also had another original number called the "evenement number". These have been preserved in the NO (Note) field.

See file level description and the CERN operational circular No 3: rules applicable to archival material and archiving at CERN. In general, records on any subject that are over 30 years old, and all records of a purely scientific nature, may be consulted.

Copyright is retained by CERN, no reproduction without permission.

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• français

• italien

• latin

Most of the material is written in English, French, Italian and a few files in Spanish and German.

Includes a flew floppy disks.

Description prepared by Sandrine Reyes. Geneva, the 24th April 2001, Revised 2007.

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