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According to https://jobs.web.cern.ch/faq/all https://jobs.web.cern.ch/faq/all there "are over 2,250 staff members" "but there can be up to 13,000 people on sit
by philippnagel 11y ago
According to https://jobs.web.cern.ch/faq/all https://jobs.web.cern.ch/faq/all there "are over 2,250 staff members" "but there can be up to 13,000 people on site at any one time".
- cshimmin 11y agoThose are jobs for the CERN facility alone (which also probably includes services like HR, translation, janitorial, etc). But thousands more work essentially full time as "CERN users". These scientists and engineers are typically paid by member organizations around the world, i.e. universities (think professors, postdocs, grad students) and national labs (LBNL/Brookhaven/Fermilab etc in the US, in2p3 in France, DESY in Germany). The ATLAS and CMS author lists are about 3000 each (generally all physicists), but all told there are over 10,000 scientists, technicians, and engineers who basically work full time running the LHC and its associated detectors. That's not to mention all the people working on any of CERN's many other projects that have nothing to do with the LHC.
- arethuza 11y ago"nothing to do with the LHC" Or possibly nothing to do with physics - I went to a conference at CERN in '94 about one of their computing projects. I believe that project became quite popular.