List of streets at CERN explained

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is an international, intergovernmental organisation. Its activities are carried out on land placed at its disposal by the Canton of Geneva, the Swiss Confederation and France.[1] [2] [3] In accordance with the agreements reached between France, Switzerland and CERN governing the organisation's legal status, the CERN site is placed under the authority and control of the Director-General as the organisation's chief executive officer. The latter is thus empowered to issue internal rules applicable to all persons entering the CERN site and intended to establish thereon the conditions necessary for the exercise of its functions.

CERN street names were for a long time an internal matter to the organisation. In 2013 the Canton of Geneva officially recognised CERN street names.[4]

A partial list of named streets at CERN, with the CERN sites they belong to and the French or Swiss Communes they traverse. [5] [6]
Name CERN Site Commune Named for:
Route Adams Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Adams, John"John Adams
Square Edoardo AmaldiMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Amaldi, Edoardo"Edoardo Amaldi
Route Arago Meyrin Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Arago, François"François Arago
Chemin AugerMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Auger, Pierre Victor
Route BabbageMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Babbage, Charles"Charles Babbage
Route BakkerMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Bakker, Cornelis"Cornelis Bakker
Route BalmerMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Balmer, Johann Jakob" Johann Jakob Balmer
Route BecquerelMeyrin Meyrin, Satigny data-sort-value="Becquerel, Antoine Henri"Henri Becquerel
Route BellMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Bell, John Stewart"
Route BlochMeyrin Meyrin, Satigny data-sort-value="Bloch, Felix"Felix Bloch
Route BohrMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Bohr, Niels"Niels Bohr
Route Booster Meyrin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Proton Synchrotron Booster"The Proton Synchrotron Booster
Route Born Meyrin Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Born, Max"Max Born
Route de Broglie Prévessin Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Broglie, Louis De" Louis de Broglie
Route Budker Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Budker, Gersh"Gersh Budker
Chemin de la BerneN/A Meyrin
Route H. CavendishMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Cavendish, Henry"Henry Cavendish
Route J. Cockcroft Meyrin Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Cockroft, John"John Cockcroft
Route CoulombMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Coulomb, Charles Augustin de"Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Route CrookesMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Crookes, William" William Crookes
Route Marie CurieMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Curie, Marie"Marie Curie
Route DemocriteMeyrin Meyrin, Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Democritus"Democritus
Route Dirac Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Dirac, Paul"Paul Dirac
Route EinsteinMeyrin Meyrin, Prévessin-Moën data-sort-value="Einstein, Albert"Albert Einstein
Esplanade des ParticulesMeyrin Meyrin
Route FaradayMeyrin Meyrin, Satigny data-sort-value="Faraday, Michael"Michael Faraday
Route Fermi Meyrin Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Fermi, Enrico"Enrico Fermi
Route Feynman Meyrin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Feynman, Richard"Richard Feynman
Square Galileo Galilei LHC Point 1 Meyrin data-sort-value="Galilei, Galileo"
Route GaussMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Gauss, Carl Friedrich"Carl Friedrich Gauss
Route Gentner Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Gentner, Wolfgang"Wolfgang Gentner
Route GowardMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Goward, Frank Kenneth"Frank Kenneth Goward
Route Gregory Meyrin Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Gregory, Bernard"Bernard Gregory
Route GreinacherMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Greinacher, Heinrich"Heinrich Greinacher
Route Heisenberg Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Heisenberg, Werner"Werner Heisenberg
Route HertzMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Hertz, Heinrich"
Route Jentschke Meyrin Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Jentschke, Willibald"Willibald Jentschke
Route Joliot-CurieMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Joliot-Curie"Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Route du Jura Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns
Route Lagarrigue Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Lagarrigue, André"André Lagarrigue
Square LagarrigueMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Lagarrigue, André"André Lagarrigue
Route LawrenceMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Lawrence, Ernest"Ernest Lawrence
Route MaxwellMeyrin Meyrin, Satigny data-sort-value="Maxwell, James Clerk"James Clerk Maxwell
Route NewtonMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Newton, Isaac" Isaac Newton
Route Occhialini Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Occhialini, Giuseppe"
Route Oppenheimer Meyrin Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Oppenheimer, Robert"Robert Oppenheimer
Allée PaulMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Paul, Wolfgang" Wolfgang Paul
Route PauliMeyrin Meyrin, Satigny data-sort-value="Pauli, Wolfgang" Wolfgang Pauli
Route Jean Perrin Meyrin Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Perrin, Jean Baptiste" Jean Baptiste Perrin
Route des Physiciens Prévessin Saint-Genis-Pouilly
Route Planck Meyrin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Planck, Max"Max Planck
Route Powell Meyrin Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Powell, Cecil Frank"Cecil Frank Powell
Route Rabi Meyrin Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Rabi, Isidor Isaac"Isidor Isaac Rabi
Route RöntgenMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Röntgen, Wilhelm"Wilhelm Röntgen
Route RutherfordMeyrin Meyrin, Prévessin-Moëns, Satigny data-sort-value="Rutherford, Ernest"Ernest Rutherford
Route SalamMeyrin Meyrin, Satigny data-sort-value="Salam, Abdus"Abdus Salam
Route ScherrerMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Scherrer, Paul" Paul Scherrer
Route Schrödinger Meyrin Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Schrödinger, Erwin"Erwin Schrödinger
Route des Services Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns
Route Karl Siegbahn Meyrin Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Siegbahn, Karl Manne"Karl Manne Siegbahn
Route Stueckelberg Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Stueckelberg, Ernst"Ernst Stueckelberg
Route Touschek Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Touschek, Bruno"Bruno Touschek
Square Van HoveMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Van Hove, Léon"Léon Van Hove
Route VekslerMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Veksler, Vladimir" Vladimir Veksler
Route VoltaMeyrin Meyrin, Satigny data-sort-value="Volta, Alessandro"Alessandro Volta
Route WeisskopfMeyrin Satigny data-sort-value="Weisskopf, Victor" Victor Weisskopf
Route WuMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Wu, Chien-Shiung" Chien-Shiung Wu
Route Ypsilantis Prévessin Prévessin-Moëns data-sort-value="Ypsilantis, Thomas"Thomas Ypsilantis
Route YukawaMeyrin Meyrin data-sort-value="Yukawa, Hideki" Hideki Yukawa
Route Zeeman Meyrin Saint-Genis-Pouilly data-sort-value="Zeeman, Pieter" Pieter Zeeman

Notes and References

  1. 1 July 1953 . Convention for the establishment of a European Organization for Nuclear Research . CERN . 21 October 2015 . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20151021053230/https://council.web.cern.ch/council/en/basicdocuments/CONVENTION.pdf . October 21, 2015 .
  2. 11 June 1955 . Agreement between the Swiss Federal Council and the European Organization for Nuclear Research concerning the Legal Status of that Organization in Switzerland . CERN . 21 October 2015 . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20151021052826/https://council.web.cern.ch/council/en/basicdocuments/ACC-ST-SUISSE.pdf . October 21, 2015 .
  3. 30 August 1973 . Agreement between the Government of the French Republic and the European Organization for Nuclear Research concerning the Legal Status of the sais Organization in France . CERN . 21 October 2015 . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20151021053529/https://council.web.cern.ch/council/en/basicdocuments/Accord%20FR%20CERN%20en%20angl.pdf . October 21, 2015 .
  4. 11 September 2013 . Arrêté relatif à la reconnaissance de la dénomination des artères sur le site suisse du CERN . Canton of Geneva . 20 October 2015 . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20151020164414/http://ge.ch/noms-geographiques/sites/noms-geographiques/files/document/geneve/ace_cern.pdf . October 20, 2015 .
  5. Web site: Roads. GS - SE - Patrimony and Site Information. CERN. French. CERN account required to view. 14 January 2016.
  6. Web site: CERN - Mapcern. maps.cern.ch. CERN Geographic Information System. 15 January 2016.