Council - Thirtieth Session

The Council met at CERN on 16 and 17 June 1965 under the chairmanship of J. H. Bannier. As usual, a brief survey of the current state of CERN was given by the Director General, Prof. V. F. Weisskopf, in presenting the Progress Reports of its Divisions (for the period November 1964 to May 1965), and various detailed points concerning the running of the Organization were discussed or given formal approval. Most of the session, however, was devoted to the future of sub-nuclear physics research in Europe, and it was in this context that the decision was taken to support the construction of intersecting storage rings (ISR) for the CERN proton synchrotron (PS).