Fabiola Gianotti To Take Over As CERN Director-General

somegeekynick writes "The public face of the ATLAS experiment at CERN which co-discovered the the Higgs-like boson in 2012, Fabiola Gianotti, 52, has been chosen as the next Director-General of the particle physics lab. She'll become the first woman to hold the position. The 5-year term begins on Jan 1, 2016."