Identity Statement | Context | Content and Structure | Conditions of access and use | Description control | Database
Conditions of access and use [Top]
Conditions governing access
See file level description and the CERN operational circular No 3: rules applicable to archival material and archiving at CERN. In general, records on any subject that are over 30 years old, and all records of a purely scientific nature, may be consulted.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright is retained by CERN, no reproduction without permission.
Language / scripts of material
Most of the material is written in English, French and also in Italian.
Finding aids
Listed to file level in the CERN Archives Database.
Content & Structure [Top]
Scope and content
These documents represent the filing system of Luciano Maiani during his period as Director-General of CERN. They cover all aspects of CERN's activities, and include:
- relations with the Delegations and other collaborations,
- relations with the management and committees,
- personnel matters,
- health and safety. Finance. Research
- conferences and visits
- correspondence
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Approximately 1 linear metres of material comprising copies of Council and other Committee documents (CC, FC, SPC,) were destroyed.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
The records have been divided into 17 major groups.
| 01 | Directorate meetings | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-01-001 to 222 |
| 02 | Management board | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-02-001 to 053 |
| 03 | Host States | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-03-001 to 005 |
| 04 | Member States | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-04-001 to 028 |
| 05 | Non-Member States and Observer | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-05-001 to 030 |
| 06 | External collaboration (HEP Laboratories, organizations & industries) | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-06-001 to 045 |
| 07 | Council and Committees | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-07-001 to 020 |
| 08 | Scientific committees | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-08-001 to 048 |
| 09 | Management | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-09-001 to 045 |
| 10 | Personnel and users | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-10-001 to 043 |
| 11 | Research | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-11-001 to 010 |
| 12 | Health and safety | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-12-001 to 008 |
| 13 | Finance | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-13-001 to 019 |
| 14 | Events and visits | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-14-001 to 041 |
| 15 | Conferences and talks | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-15-001 to 021 |
| 16 | Correspondence | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-16-001 to 028 |
| 17 | Miscellaneous | CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-17-001 to 019 |
Context [Top]
Name of creator
Luciano Maiani
Administrative or biographical history
Luciano Maiani was born in Rome on 16 July 1941. He obtained a degree in physics in 1964, then became a research associate at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. During that same year he collaborated with R. Gatto's Theoretical Physics group at the University of Florence. In 1969 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, then a Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome in 1976. He was visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, in 1977, and at CERN during 1979-80 and 1985-86.
He became professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Rome, "La Sapienza" in 1984, and from January 1993 to December 1998 he was President of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). He was a member of CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron Committee (*?-1983), Large Hadron Collider Committee (*1992-?) and Scientific Policy Committee (*dates). From 1993 to 1996 he served as part of the Italian to the CERN Council before becoming President from January 1997 to December 1998. In 1999 he was appointed Director-General of CERN until the end of 2003, replacing Christopher Llewellyn Smith. He became President of Italy’s National Research Council (CNR) in 2008. Awards he has received include the 1987 ‘J. Sakurai’ Prize of the American Physical Society and the 2007 Dirac Medal (with John Iliopoulos).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Director-General's office
Description control [Top]
Archivist's note
Description prepared by Sandrine Reyes.
Date(s) of description
Geneva, the 6th July 2012.
Identity Statement [Top]
Reference code(s)
CERN-ARCH-DG-LM-01-001 to 17-019
Title
Archives of Luciano Maiani (1941-), Director-General of CERN from 1999 to 2003
Date(s)
1974 to 2004
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Extent of the unit of description
285 boxes; 684 Items; 32 linear metres