Organisation (ESRO) first Director General and one of the forefathers for the CERN foundation. He was president of the Centre international de calcul (Rome). From 1948 to 1959, he directed at UNESCO the department of mathematical and natural sciences. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1977. He hosted a broadcast of popularization of exacting science on Friday evenings on the public radio station France Culture from September 1969 to June 1986, entitled Les Grandes Avenues de la science moderne. The world's largest cosmic ray detector, the Pierre Auger Observatory, is named after him. See also Auger therapy References External links Pierre Auger: The Pioneering Work Entretien du 23 avril 1986 avec Pierre Auger 1899 births 1993 deaths People associated with CERN French physicists Members of the French Academy of Sciences Manhattan Project people Cosmic ray physicists Kalinga Prize recipients