Birthday Quote 24th May

Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer (German: born 24 May 1948 in Boll) is a German particle physicist. Heuer studied physics at the University of Stuttgart then obtained his PhD 1977 at the University of Heidelberg under Joachim Heintze

Heuer went on to become Director General of CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider, from 2009 to 2015. He currently is the President of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

"The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes."

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

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