On the CERN website, navigate to the 'Our History' section. Identify CERN's core purpose or ethos, the year its Convention was signed by the initial states, the number of initial signatory states, and the name of its first Director-General. Summarize these foundational details.
Navigate to 'home.cern' Click on the 'About' link in the main navigation. Click on the 'Our History' sub-section link. Scroll down the 'Our History' page to locate all the requested information. Identify CERN's core purpose or ethos. Identify the year the CERN Convention was signed by the initial states. Find the number of states that initially signed the CERN Convention. Locate the name of CERN's first Director-General. Compile and state all the requested information.
State CERN's core purpose/ethos, which includes 'no concern with work for military requirements', 'results... shall be published or otherwise made generally available', and 'to make great strides in fundamental research and stretch the limits of our technology and imaginations'. State the year the CERN Convention was signed by the initial states as 1953. State the number of states that initially signed the CERN Convention as 12. State the name of CERN's first Director-General as Felix Bloch.