Editing Pierre Victor Auger (section)

==Honors and achievements==
*He was [[European Space Research Organisation]] (ESRO) first Director General and one of the forefathers for the [[CERN]] foundation.<ref name="bio"/>

*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 (France)|Académie des sciences]] in 1977.
*He hosted a broadcast of [[Popular science|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.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Watson|first1=Alan|title=The future's bright for the Pierre Auger Observatory|journal=CERN Courier|date=July 2006|volume=46|issue=6|pages=12–14|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1733941}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Auger observatorycelebrates progress|journal=CERN Courier|date=February 2006|volume=46|issue=1|page=8|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1733853}}</ref>