CERN
International organization which operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory
Also known as European Organization for Nuclear Research · home.cern
- Founded
- September 29, 1954
- Headquarters
- Country
- Chair
- Ursula Bassler(2019–2021)
- , Sijbrand de Jong(2016–2018)
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Sources- 1.“Presidents and vice-Presidents of Council”council.web.cern.ch/en/content/presidents-and-vice-presidents-council
- , Eliezer Rabinovici(2022–2024)
- +1 more
- Director / manager
- Mark Thomson(since 2026)
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Sources- 1.“CERN Council selects Mark Thomson as next Director-General, starting in 2026”home.cern/news/press-release/cern/cern-council-selects-mark-thomson-next-director-general-starting-2026Retrieved 2024-12-13
- , Rolf-Dieter Heuer(2009–2015)
- , Robert Aymar(2004–2008)
- +15 more
- Mark Thomson(since 2026)
- Employees
- 2,704(December 31, 2024)
- , 2,635(2020)
- , 2,660(2019)
- +3 more
- Website
Overview
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- Member of
- ORCID, Inc.(October 2023)
- Digital Preservation Coalition
- Linux Foundation
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- World Wide Web Consortium
1
- Global Open Science Hardware
- arXiv(2021)
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- DataCite
- Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association subject named as: CERN Scientific Information Service
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- Elevation
- 422 m
- Native label
- Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire
- Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN)
- Short name
- CERN
- ЦЕРН
- CERN
- Significant event
- Opening the tetraquark(2014)
- Discovery of the Higgs Boson(April 7, 2012)
- Budget
- 1.23B CHF(2018)
- Carbon footprint
- 78,169 tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent(2019)
- 223,800 tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent(2018)
- Social media followers
- 230,000(May 11, 2025) youtube channel id: UCrHXK2A9JtiexqwHuWGeSMg
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- 213,000(April 29, 2024) youtube channel id: UCrHXK2A9JtiexqwHuWGeSMg
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- 196,000(February 17, 2023) youtube channel id: UCrHXK2A9JtiexqwHuWGeSMg
- 155,000(March 17, 2022) youtube channel id: UCrHXK2A9JtiexqwHuWGeSMg
- 138,000(July 3, 2021) youtube channel id: UCrHXK2A9JtiexqwHuWGeSMg
- 230,000(May 11, 2025) youtube channel id: UCrHXK2A9JtiexqwHuWGeSMg
- Participant in
- OA Switchboard(February 2023)
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- OA Switchboard(February 2023)
- Archives at
- Niels Bohr Library & Archives object named as: CERN reports, 1952-1993 · inventory number: AR 226, 3919 · described at url: libserv.aip.org, history.aip.org
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SourcesView statement on Wikidata ↗
- Niels Bohr Library & Archives object named as: CERN reports, 1952-1993 · inventory number: AR 226, 3919 · described at url: libserv.aip.org, history.aip.org
On other databases
113 identifiers linking CERN across the web's reference databases
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinecern
- Atlante Geopolitico IDeuropean-organization-for-nuclear-research_res-3efbec70-00a4-11e2-b986-d5ce3506d72e
- Atlas Obscura place IDcern
- Autonomous system number513
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- Basis Wien institution ID112945
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- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11881926r
- BIBSYS ID90208698
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf12085674
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- CiNii Research ID1140845216648905216
- ComputerLanguage.com definitionCERN
- Crunchbase organization IDcern
- Cultureel Woordenboek IDnatuurkunde-scheikunde-en-sterrenkunde/cern
- De Agostini IDCERN
- Delfi.ee topic ID37802077
- Dialnet author ID3220302
- Domain namecern.ch
- Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica IDcern
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/CERN
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)LulGO
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)322902
- EU Corporate body codeCERN
- Europalexikon ID176750
- EuroVoc ID5365
- Facebook usernamecern
- FAST ID547584
- FOLDOC IDCERN
- FranceArchives agent ID627598523
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- GeoNames ID2661235
- GND ID1020028-9
- Google Arts & Culture partner IDcern
- Google+ ID+CERN
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- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0017097
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDCERN
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)1974616
- GRID IDgrid.9132.9
- Harper's tageuropean-organization-for-nuclear-research
- HDS ID026471
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID11288
- IATE entry ID780937
- IdRef ID026603268
- Instagram usernamecern
- ISNI000000012156142X
- ITU/ISO/IEC object ID1.3.6.1.4.1.96
- J9U entity ID987007423287805171
- Kallías IDKS00133897
- Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID1020028-9
- KBpedia IDCERN
- KISTI IDK000236057
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- Lex IDCERN
- Libraries Australia ID35070441
- Library of Congress Authorities IDno92025533
- LinkedIn company or organization IDcern
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)67311998
- Museum-digital person/organization ID42695
- NACSIS-CAT author IDDA01148721
- National Library of Greece ID243471
- National Library of Lithuania IDLNB:B0Y4;=xs
- National Library of Poland MMS ID9810637579005606
- National Library of Portugal ID1944806
- NE.se IDcern
- New York Times topic IDorganization/cern
- NL CR AUT IDxx0035379
- NSK (VIAF) ID000505732
- NSK ID981005719350209366
- NUKAT IDn00072748
- Omni topic ID4a2d206d-0df7-4b6e-b5d0-e69d351a799c
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3884342
- Open Funder Registry funder ID100012470
- Open Library IDOL4135061A
- OpenAlex IDI67311998
- OpenStreetMap relation ID27005
- OSM Name Suggestion Index IDcern-ed9688
- Oxford Reference overview ID20110803095559552
- Politika topic ID2921
- Postimees topic ID18336
- Private Enterprise Number96
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID14912
- Quora topic IDCERN-organization
- Radio France person IDcern
- RationalWiki IDCERN
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)cern
- RERO ID (legacy)A000125638
