Bernard Gregory

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Bernard Gregory (19 January 1919, in Bergerac – 24 December 1977, in Élancourt)[1][2][3] was a prominent French physicist and director-general of CERN.[4]

Bernard Gregory
CERN Director-General

During

cosmic rays
.

After earning his

École Polytechnique he worked with a number of physicists including Charles Peyrou [de], Jean Crussard (1911-1986), André Lagarrigue, and later André Astier
.

In 1958, Gregory was appointed professor of physics at the

École Polytechnique, and was subsequently brought to CERN PS in Geneva.[3]

He was Directorate Member for Research at CERN from 1964 to 1965.

Director General of CERN.[8] At CERN, he supervised most of the construction of the world's first hadron collider, the Intersecting Storage Rings
(ISR).

Following his mandate as CERN Director-General, Gregory returned to the Polytechnique laboratory in Paris. Soon he became director-general of the

National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), which he led from 1973 to 1976.[1] The same year, he became Délégué général à la Recherche scientifique et technique (DGRST). Gregory was elected president for the CERN Council for 1978, but died before entering this position.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Biographie de Bernard Grégory". La Jaune et la Rouge: Revue des anciens élèves de l'École polytechnique (X). May 1978. Archived from the original on June 29, 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Tribute to Professor Gregory". CERN Courier. 10 (12): 378. December 1970.
  3. ^ a b "People and things: Bernard Gregory". CERN Courier. 18 (1–2): 27. February 1978.
  4. ^ "The 1979 Bernard Gregory lectures". CERN Report 80-03. CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs. CERN. 1980. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Bernard Gregory: Directorate Member for Research". CERN Courier. 4 (3): 28. March 1964.
  6. ISBN 2-7302-0008-8
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  7. ^ a b "Bernard Gregory" (PDF). CERN Bulletin (2/78): 1. 9 January 1978.
  8. ^ "Prof. Gregory to succeed Prof. Weisskopf next January". CERN Courier. CERN. 1965. Retrieved 2 September 2015.

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Business positions
Preceded by
Victor Weisskopf
Director General of CERN

1966-1970 		Succeeded by
Willibald Jentschke and John Adams (Co-directors)
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