Skip to main content
Hello Visitor!     Log In
Share |

Schopper, Herwig

Schopper, Herwig

Former Director General, CERN; Member, Board of Trustees, WAAS

Job Title

Former Director General, CERN; Member, Board of Trustees, WAAS

Herwig Schopper is the former Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and former Director of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg. His fields of work include Optics, Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics. He has held various professorships in Germany and has been involved in directing several research institutes at the national and international scales. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Academy. He is also Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London, UK; the American Physical Society; and various academies.