Rubbia Carlo

Corresponding members II. Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences
Rubbia Carlo

Date of birth:

  • 1934

Place of birth:

  • Gorizia, Italy

Emails:

Rubbia Carlo

Corresponding members II. Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences

Winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics

Academic titles:

  • professor, PhD

Membership in the Academy:

  • corresponding member – Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences (6/18/1992 – …)

Curriculum Vitae

Carlo Rubbia, an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, was born in Gorizia on March 31, 1934.  He received his Doctorate in 1957 from the University of Pisa. He worked at Columbia Universities in New York (from 1958 to 1959) and Sapienza in Rome (1960), from 1961 he was a full-time researcher at CERN in Geneva (director from 1990 to 1993), from 1970 to 1970 a professor at Harvard University, from 1994 to 1994 director of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.

His research on the atomic nucleus led to the identification of the sixth type of quark (super heavy). Together with Simon van der Meer, in 1984 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of new elementary particles (W-bosons and Z-bosons). The planetoid (8398 Rubbia) was named after him.

He was elected as a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1992.

Carlo Rubbia – personal page