Carlo Rubbia

Dates

March 31, 1934 – present

Authorized Form of Name

Rubbia, Carlo, 1934-

Biography

Abstract

Carlo Rubbia was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Simon van der Meer, "for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction." Most of his career was spent at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Harvard University.

Important Dates

March 31, 1934Birth, Gorizia (Italy).

1958Post-Doctoral Researcher, Columbia University, New York (N.Y.).

1958Obtained PhD in Physics, Scuola normale superiore (Italy), Pisa (Italy).

1960 – 1994Researcher (1960-1989) and Director-General (1989-1994), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland).

1970 – 1988Higgins Professor of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.).

Circa 1974Proposed major neutrino experiment, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory..

1984Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics with Simon van der Meer, "for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction".

1984Foreign Member, Royal Society.

1999 – 2005President, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and the Environment (ENEA).

2005 – 2009Scientific Advisor, Spanish Research Centre for Energy, Environment, and Technology (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (Spain)).

2009Special Advisor for Energy to the Secretary General, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

2010 – 2015Scientific Director, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS).

2013Appointed Senator for life, by Italian Republic President.

2016Awarded the International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award of China.

Occupation

Particle physicist.

Places

Subjects

Accelerators -- Design and construction.

Neutrinos.

Particle physics.

Weak interactions (Nuclear physics).

Relationships

People

Family

Rubbia, André

Son.

Rubbia, Laura

Daughter.

Rubbia, Marisa

Wife.

Advisors & Collaborators

Baker, Winslow F.

Collaborated at Columbia University on weak interactions experiments.

Cline, D. (David), 1933-

Collaborated on weak interactions research at Fermilab, and intermediate vector bosons research at CERN.

Conversi, M. 1917-

Advisor at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

Gareyte, Jacques

Collaborated on transforming high energy accelerators at CERN.

Kroll, Ira Joseph

Advised by Rubbia at Harvard University.

Mann, Alfred K.

Collaborated on weak interactions research at CERN and Fermilab.

McIntyre, P. S. (Peter S.)

Collaborated on intermediate vector bosons research at CERN.

Petrucci, Guido

Collaborated on transforming high energy accelerators at CERN.

Phillips, Thomas James

Advised by Rubbia at Harvard University.

Schwartz, Alan Jay

Advised by Rubbia at Harvard University.

Van der Meer, Simon, 1925-2011

Shared 1984 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."

Worstell, William Alan

Advised by Rubbia at Harvard University.