Carlo Rubbia

Carlo Rubbia (born the March 31st 1934 with Gorizia, in the area of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia -) is a physicist Italy N.

Biography

Carlo Rubbia was born in the small town from Gorizia, in Italy. After the college, he studied with the Faculty of Physics to the National university of Pisa where he supported a thesis treating of the experiments on the cosmic radiation. In 1958, it left to the United States of America to widen its experiment and to familiarize themselves with the particle accelerator .

Towards 1960, it returned in Europe, attracted by CERN, recently created, where it worked with experiments on the structure of the weak interactions. It was named professor of physics to the Université Harvard in 1970, but continued to frequently go to Europe to work with the CERN. In 1976, it proposed to modify the Super synchrotron with protons (SPS) of CERN to cause collisions between Proton S and Antiproton S in the same ring. Thus the first factory of antiprotons of the world was built. The collider started to function in 1981 and, in January 1983, came the advertisement, initially of detector UA1, that particles W had been created. A few months later, of the particles Z, even more fugacious, were also observed.

The following year, in 1984, Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer divided the Nobel Prize of physics, one of the shortest times between a discovery and the reward.

Carlo Rubbia continued to work at the same time on UA1 and as professor of physics in Harvard until in 1989, date on which it accepted the general position of director of the CERN, function that it occupied until in 1993.

Carlo Rubbia also invented a single design for a new kind of nuclear reactor, the Amplificateur of energy. This design, whose principle of operation is without risk, combines a particle accelerator with a subcritical nuclear reactor which can use an abundant element, the Thorium, like fuel and is especially safe from a fusion. Moreover, waste which this equipment produces is dangerous for one period much shorter than waste from the conventional engines, and it is also able to transform waste at long period of disintegration produced by conventional nuclear reactors into less dangerous elements.

Carlo Rubbia currently teaches with the Université of Pavia, in Italy, and chairs ENEA (Institute for new technologies, energy and the environment).

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Autobiography on the site of the foundation Nobel

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