(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.
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.
Gianotti gets second term at CERN helm
59-year-old physicist is first woman to hold post