List of Directors General of CERN
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List of Directors General of CERN

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In Office	Directors General	Country

1952–1954	Edoardo Amaldi (Secretary-General)	Italy

1954–1955	Felix Bloch	Switzerland

1955–1960	Cornelis Bakker	Netherlands

1960–1961	John Adams (Acting Director)	United Kingdom

1961–1965	Victor Frederick Weisskopf	Austria

1966–1970	Bernard Gregory	France

1971–1975	Willibald Jentschke (Co-directors)	Austria

John Adams (Co-directors)	United Kingdom

1976–1980	Léon van Hove (Co-directors)	Belgium

John Adams (Co-directors)	United Kingdom

1981–1988	Herwig Schopper	Germany

1989–1993	Carlo Rubbia	Italy

1994–1998	Christopher Llewellyn Smith	United Kingdom

1999–2003	Luciano Maiani	San Marino

2004–2008	Robert Aymar	France

2009–2015	Rolf-Dieter Heuer	Germany

2016–2020	Fabiola Gianotti	Italy

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Robert Aymar was the Director General of CERN (2004–2008), serving a five-year term in that role.

final_sentence: Robert Aymar was the Director General of CERN (2004–2008), serving a five-year term in that role.