Archives of Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith, Director-General of CERN from 1994 to 1998
Identity Statement | Context | Content and Structure | Conditions of access and use | Description control | Database
Identity Statement [Top]
Reference code(s)
CERN-ARCH-DG-CLS-
Title
Archives of Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith, Director-General of CERN from 1994 to 1998
Date(s)
1987 - 1998
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Extent of the unit of description
31 linear metres, 279 boxes, 729 items
Context [Top]
Name of creator
Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith
Biographical history
After education at Oxford and a brief period as an exchange Fellow in Moscow, he was a CERN Fellow from 1968 to 1970.
After two years at SLAC, he returned to CERN during 1972-1974 as a staff member in the Theoretical Studies (TH) Division and became a member of the Experimental Committee for Super Proton-Synchrotron (SPSC) from 1973 to 1976.
During the 1980s he was an Expert Advisor to two committees related to CERN: - The Kendrew Committee (1984-1985) on UK Policy for Particle Physics and Membership of CERN, - The CERN Review (Abragam) Committee (1986-1987) on the future of CERN.
From 1986 to 1993 he was a member of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee (SPC), serving as Chairman from 1990-1992.
In January 1994 he returned from Oxford, where he had spent the years 1974-1993, and succeeded Carlo Rubbia as Director-General of CERN.
During his mandate, the LHC accelerator was approved (December 1994) and Japan and the United States became Observer States.
He was suceeded by Luciano Maiani as CERN Director-General in January 1999
See also: Internal Organization of CERN from 1994 to 1998
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Florence Rabier, Directorate Services Units (DSU), January 2004
Content & Structure [Top]
Scope and content
These documents represent the filing system of Christopher Llewellyn Smith during his period as Director-General of CERN. They cover all aspects of CERN's activities, and include:
- relations with the Delegations
- relations with Administrative Sector, Accelerator and Technology Sector, and Computing and Research Sector
- minutes of Directorate, Management Board meetings, etc...
- minutes of scientific committees and other committees meetings
- conferences
- correspondence
- documents concerning official visits
- personnel matters concerning appeals, early retirements, policy, recruitment...
- DG working files
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Approximately 2 linear metres of material comprising copies of Council and other Committee documents (CC, FC, SPC,) were destroyed.
Accruals
No further accrual is expected
System of arrangement
The original order has been preserved. Plan of classification (following the original order of the files)
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CERN-ARCH-DG-CLS-01- External relations
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CERN-ARCH-DG-CLS-02 - Internal relations - Administration
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CERN-ARCH-DG-CLS-03- Users
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CERN-ARCH-DG-CLS-04- Research
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CERN-ARCH-DG-CLS-05- Correspondance
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CERN-ARCH-DG-CLS-06- Christopher Llewellyn Smith Working files |
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.
Finding aids
Listed to file level in the CERN Archives Database.
Description control [Top]
Archivist's note
Description prepared by Sandrine Reyes.
Date(s) of description
Geneva, the March 2007. Revised January 2012