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Robert Aymar
Robert Aymar was the Director General of CERN (2004–2008), serving a five-year term in that role.
Aymar was born in 1936 in France. After studying at the "École Polytechnique", Robert Aymar entered the "Corps des Poudres" (a former government agency involved in basic and applied research). Following his secondment to the "Commissariat à l'énergie atomique" (CEA) in 1959, his career has been focused on fundamental research in plasma physics and its application in controlled thermonuclear fusion
has been claimed as 10 Aug 1874, however the date of 16 Sep 1866 is evidenced by his official birth record. He was educated to elementary level at Bourke, where his family moved after his father's alleged death when Stuart-Robertson was 4 years old. Despite the rumour that Robert senior had died during the 1870s in Queensland, Robert senior died on 3 July 1899 at George Street Asylum, Parramatta, New South Wales.
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