About the Editors
Stephen Myers was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland,
and worked at CERN, Geneva, from 1972 until 2015.
He was responsible for the commissioning and the
energy upgrade of the CERN Large Electron-Positron
Collider (LEP). In 2008, he was nominated CERN
Director of Accelerators and Technology until January
2014; during this time, he directed the repair of the
CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after the serious
accident and steered the operation of the collider in
2010, 2011, and 2012. On July 4, 2012, the data from
the collider allowed the discovery of a “Higgs” boson
for which Peter Higgs and Francois Engelert received
the Nobel Physics Prize in 2013.
He is currently executive chair of a Geneva-based
company (ADAM SA), which is developing a linear
accelerator for proton therapy of cancer, and nonexecutive Director of the parent company Advanced
Oncotherapy (AVO).
Herwig Franz Schopper joined as a research associate at CERN since 1966 and returned in 1970 as
leader of the Nuclear Physics Division and went on
to become a member of the directorate responsible
for the coordination of CERN’s experimental program.
He was chairman of the ISR Committee at CERN
from 1973 to 1976 and was elected as member of the
Scientific Policy Committee in 1979. Following Léon
Van Hove and John Adams’ years as Director-General
for research and executive Director-General, Schopper
became the sole Director-General of CERN in 1981.
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Stephen Myers was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland,
and worked at CERN, Geneva, from 1972 until 2015.
He was responsible for the commissioning and the
energy upgrade of the CERN Large Electron-Positron
Collider (LEP). In 2008, he was nominated CERN
Director of Accelerators and Technology until January
2014; during this time, he directed the repair of the
CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after the serious
accident and steered the operation of the collider in
2010, 2011, and 2012. On July 4, 2012, the data from
the collider allowed the discovery of a “Higgs” boson
for which Peter Higgs and Francois Engelert received
the Nobel Physics Prize in 2013.
He is currently executive chair of a Geneva-based
company (ADAM SA), which is developing a linear
accelerator for proton therapy of cancer, and nonexecutive Director of the parent company Advanced
Oncotherapy (AVO).
Herwig Franz Schopper joined as a research associate at CERN since 1966 and returned in 1970 as
leader of the Nuclear Physics Division and went on
to become a member of the directorate responsible
for the coordination of CERN’s experimental program.
He was chairman of the ISR Committee at CERN
from 1973 to 1976 and was elected as member of the
Scientific Policy Committee in 1979. Following Léon
Van Hove and John Adams’ years as Director-General
for research and executive Director-General, Schopper
became the sole Director-General of CERN in 1981.
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