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Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia was born in Gorizia, Italy, on 31st March 1934. He graduated at Scuola Normale in Pisa and obtained is Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1959, where he started to work on accelerators. A few years later he joined CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, where in 1983, heading an international team of more than 100 physicists, he detected the intermediate vector bosons. In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for this discovery, together with Simon van der Meer. From 1970 to December 1988 Rubbia has spent one semester per year at Harvard University, where he was Higgins Professor of Physics. In 1989 he was appointed Director General of CERN. His research activities are presently concentrated on the problems of climate change and energy supply, with particular focus on the development of novel and safe methods for the production of electricity both from nuclei and the sun.
