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Nature 420, 719 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420719b

Managing CERN's industries

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Europe's huge particle-physics laboratory is now in need of both brilliant science and outstanding management.

Following the appointment of Robert Aymar as the new director general of the European particle-physics laboratory CERN (see page 721), the laboratory has a good chance of re-establishing the full confidence of its member states following recent budgetary problems. Aymar is known for taking as much pleasure from the good management of physics as from the physics itself.