(ANSA) - Rome, November 6 - CERN said Wednesday that its
council has appointed Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti for a
second mandate as the Director-General of the European
Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN.
The 59-year-old Rome native, who participated in the
discovery of the Higgs boson, became the first woman to head the
lab when she started her first term in 2016.
"It's a great honour and privilege, but also a huge
responsibility," Gianotti told ANSA.
"We will continue to plumb the secrets of Nature".
Gianotti gets second term at CERN helm
59-year-old physicist is first woman to hold post