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CERN: the view from inside

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The switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN on 10 September 2008 was watched by an estimated 1bn people. As CERN starts 2009 under new management and facing a major repair job, Matthew Chalmers catches up with the man who took the LHC to the world: CERN’s head of communications, James Gillies

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