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Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.
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science · Italian particle physicist and Nobel Prize winner (born 1934) · physicist · politician · engineer · nuclear physicist · also Carlo Rubbia, Rubbia
Born 31 March 1934 · Q187199
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2013· 3 entries
Le Scienze: INFN: Nomina di Carlo Rubbia a senatore a vita
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Proposed building a large number of small-scale thorium power plants
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Career landmark: Italian senator for life (2013).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the China University of Mining and Technology (2011).
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2007· 2 entries
UPI: Carlo Rubbia's global warming warning
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And of the board of trustees at the IMDEA Energy Institute
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Savoie-Mont-Blanc (1999).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
"CERN agreed to allow anybody to use the Web protocol and code free of charge … without any royalty or other constraint"
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1989· 4 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1989).
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Won Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (1989).
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Career landmark: Director General of CERN (1989–1993).
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Was appointed Director-General of the CERN Laboratory
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1985· 1 entry
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1985).
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1984· 7 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction.
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1984).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1984).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1984).
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With Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN
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Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer were awarded the Nobel Prize "for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction"
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Rubbia received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1981· 1 entry
And, in early 1983, an international team of more than 100 physicists headed by Rubbia and known as the UA1 Collaboration, detected the intermediate vector bosons, the W and Z bosons, which had become a cornerstone of mo
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1976· 1 entry
Suggested adapting CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to collide protons and antiprotons in the same ring – the Proton-Antiproton Collider
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1974· 1 entry
“The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists.”
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1970· 1 entry
Rubbia was appointed Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where he spent one semester per year for 18 years, while continuing his research activities at CERN
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1960· 1 entry
Where he worked on experiments on the structure of weak interactions
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1934· 2 entries
Born 1934-03-31.
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In Gorizia, an Italian town on the border with Slovenia
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