Sub-fonds CERN-ARCH-DG-CLS - Christopher Llewellyn Smith

31 linear metres, 279 boxes, 729 items

After education at Oxford and a brief period as an exchange Fellow in Moscow, he was a CERN Fellow from 1968 to 1970. After two years at SLAC, he returned to CERN during 1972-1974 as a staff member in the Theoretical Studies (TH) Division and became a member of the Experimental Committee for Super Proton-Synchrotron (SPSC) from 1973 to 1976. During the 1980s he was an Expert Advisor to two committees related to CERN: - The Kendrew Committee (1984-1985) on UK Policy for Particle Physics and Membership of CERN, - The CERN Review (Abragam) Committee (1986-1987) on the future of CERN. From 1986 to 1993 he was a member of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee (SPC), serving as Chairman from 1990-1992. In January 1994 he returned from Oxford, where he had spent the years 1974-1993, and succeeded Carlo Rubbia as Director-General of CERN. During his mandate, the LHC accelerator was approved (December 1994) and Japan and the United States became Observer States. He was suceeded by Luciano Maiani as CERN Director-General in January 1999 See also: Internal Organization of CERN from 1994 to 1998

Florence Rabier, Directorate Services Units (DSU), January 2004

These documents represent the filing system of Christopher Llewellyn Smith during his period as Director-General of CERN. They cover all aspects of CERN's activities, and include: relations with the Delegations relations with Administrative Sector, Accelerator and Technology Sector, and Computing and Research Sector minutes of Directorate, Management Board meetings, etc... minutes of scientific committees and other committees meetings conferences correspondence documents concerning official visits personnel matters concerning appeals, early retirements, policy, recruitment... * DG working files

Approximately 2 linear metres of material comprising copies of Council and other Committee documents (CC, FC, SPC,) were destroyed.

The collection is still open and accruals are received regularly, soon after they are produced.

The original order has been preserved.

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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Description prepared by Sandrine Reyes. Geneva, the March 2007. Revised January 2012.

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