Dr Robert Aymar (born 1936),Director-General of CERN (the European particle physics laboratory),which is near Geneva,Switzerland. Aymar,who was born in France,studied physics at the Ecole Polytechnique,Paris. Between 1959 and 2004 he worked at a number of research centres and government agencies,designing,developing and overseeing a wide variety of research programmes and projects,including the Tore Supra Project at Cadarache,France. A large proportion of his work has concerned nuclear fusion. He became Director- General of CERN in January 2004 |