birth_place workplaces known_for article_title name alma_mater
milan international school for advanced studies , university of trieste ghirardi -- rimini -- weber theory quantum mechanics foundations giancarlo ghirardi
 giancarlo ghirardi university of milan
giancarlo ghirardi

giancarlo ghirardi -lrb- born october 28 , 1935 -rrb- is an italian physicist and emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the university of trieste .
he is well known for the ghirardi -- rimini -- weber theory -lrb- grw -rrb- , which he proposed in 1985 together with alberto rimini and tullio weber , and for his contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics .
he has been the first to derive , in a referee report to foundations of physics , the no cloning theorem , about 1,5 years before the derivations by wootters and zurek and by dieks , which are usually considered as the discoverers of the theorem , his research interests relate to variety of topics of theoretical physics ; focussing since 1983 mainly on the foundations of quantum mechanics .
ghirardi is member of the editorial board of `` foundations of physics '' and formerly of `` studies in history and philosophy of modern science '' .
he is president of the italian society for the foundations of physics , of which he is one of the founding members .
the president of the province of trieste , maria teresa bassa poropat , conferred the ` sigillo della provincia di trieste ' to giancarlo ghirardi for research and teaching , for his commitment to the promotion and development of physics in trieste and for his intense and fruitful activity as the author of popular books and scientific publications .
the president of the italian physical society has made him a notorious member of the society for his scientific contributions .
