Vatican City, Sep 29, 2020 / 05:30 am
Pope Francis appointed the director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Tuesday to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
The Holy See press office said Sept. 29 that the pope had named Fabiola Gianotti as an "ordinary member" of the academy.
Gianotti, an Italian experimental particle physicist, is the first female director-general of CERN, which operates the world's largest particle accelerator at its laboratory on the border between France and Switzerland.
Last year, Gianotti became the first director-general since CERN was founded in 1954 to be re-elected for a second full five-year term.