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9.2 The reorganisation of the ILL
The Steering Committee asked the ILL management to put in place the following organisation.
Two divisions were to be created, a scientific division and
a division for projects and techniques. Each division would
be under the responsibility of one of the deputy directors, and
they complement the two existing divisions, the reactor, and administration. The new structure was put in place from July 1993. The new structure had the great advantage of clearly defining the role of the deputy directors. There was a tendency to consider themselves as representatives of the scientific community in their countries. This was absent in the original Franco-German institute, but developed when there were three countries. The
new organization has the merit to kill this trend by giving each deputy director supranational responsibility. However it seems that there is a great danger in creating a hierarchical structure in science. This may undermine the college organisation which, as
I said above, was and remains a novel but scientifically fertile feature of the ILL. The people who have so far exercised these responsibilities have kept this original structure, but the risk remains that of authoritarian deputy directors.
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