October 29, 1960 - Birth of Fabiola Gianotti, the first woman to be appointed CERN's Director General

D. in elementary particle physics, she is a permanent researcher at the Physics Department of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN.

Since 1996 she has been involved in several laboratory experiments such as WA70, UA2, ALEPH, and ATLAS, for which she was spokesperson for the international collaboration from 2009 to 2013 and officially announced the discovery of the Higgs boson together with John Incandela, spokesperson of the CMS experiment, in 2012 at a seminar at CERN.

In August 2013 she became an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society in the same year.

In 2016, she was appointed Director General of CERN, the first woman to hold this position.

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