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The woman in charge of the world's biggest experiment

By Anil Ananthaswamy

25 February 2009

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Fabiola Gianotti is taking over as head of the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (Image Michael Struik)

Next month Fabiola Gianotti takes over as head of ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. The largest experiment of its kind, it could answer some of the mysteries of the universe. She talks to Anil Ananthaswamy about dark matter and deep truths

What are your thoughts on becoming the first woman to head a particle physics experiment at the LHC?
CERN is such a rich environment: there are people from all over the world, young students work…

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