Carlo Rubbia

Carlo Rubbia,  (born 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor. He 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.Nobel prize press release about Rubbia He was born in Gorizia, Italy.Article on Carlo Rubbia from Encyclopædia BritannicaCarlo Rubbia's biography and lectures on the website of the Pontifical Academy of SciencesScientific publications of Carlo Rubbia on INSPIRE-HEP He also promoted nuclear power and particle accelerator by thorium.

He was elected a member of the Pontifical Academy of Science and the Academia Europaea in 1992.

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