Carlo Rubbia

1984 Nobel Prize for Physics “for decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction.”

An Italian physicist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics with colleague Dr. Simon Van der Meer. Mr. Rubbia worked at Columbia University in the United States researching particle accelerators. He later moved back to Europe to experiment with weak interactions at CERN, the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory. He served as Director General of CERN from 1989 to 1993.

Mr. Rubbia was the opening speaker and participant at the 2004 IAEA General Conference Scientific Forum. (b.1934)