Carlo Rubbia
| Senator for life Carlo Rubbia OMRI OMCA |
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Rubbia at the 2012 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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31 March 1934 Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Alma mater | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Known for | Discovery of W and Z bosons |
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Carlo Rubbia, OMRI, OMCA (born 31 March 1934) 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.
Rubbia studied physics at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale in Pisa. He graduated on cosmic ray experiments in 1957 with . Rubbia obtained his Italian doctoral degree (Laurea) in 1958 from the University of Pisa.
Following his degree, then went to the United States to do postdoctoral research, where he spent about one and a half years at Columbia University performing experiments on the decay and the nuclear capture of muons. This was the first of a long series of experiments that Rubbia has performed in the field of weak interactions and which culminated in the Nobel Prize-winning work at CERN.
In 1960 he moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded CERN, where he worked on experiments on the structure of weak interactions. CERN had just commissioned a new type of accelerator, the Intersecting Storage Rings, using counter-rotating beams of protons colliding against each other. Rubbia and his collaborators conducted experiments there, again studying the weak force. The main results in this field were the observation of the structure in the elastic scattering process and the first observation of the charmed baryons. These experiments were crucial in order to perfect the techniques needed later for the discovery of more exotic particles in a different type of particle collider.
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