CERN 1981-8

At the CERN Council Meeting in December, the Director General traditionally gives an end-of-year review. This time the presentation took on added significance as it marked the end of the eight-year mandate of Herwig Schopper, who handed over on 1 January to Carlo Rubbia. Looking back over those eight years, Schopper pointed out several major trends. The dramatic growth in CERN 'users' (the scientists coming to the Laboratory to do their research) has led to CERN's research programme becoming really worldwide. The attrition of having to operate an expanding Laboratory under a constant budget has produced in its wake a healthy increase in the efficiency of CERN's big machines and experimental facilities