Carlo Rubbia

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Nobel laureate in Physics experimental physicist human physicist

Carlo Rubbia is an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pivotal role in the experimental discovery of the W and Z bosons at CERN.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate in Physics → experimental physicist → human → physicist →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
appointedAsSenatorForLifeBy	Giorgio Napolitano →
awardReceived	Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement → Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic → Matteucci Medal → Nobel Prize in Physics → Order of Merit for Labour → Sakurai Prize →
countryOfBirth	Italy →
countryOfCitizenship	Italy →
dateOfBirth	1934-03-31 →
educatedAt	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa → University of Pisa →
employer	CERN → ENEA → Gran Sasso National Laboratory → Harvard University →
endTime	1993 (Director-General of CERN) →
ethnicGroup	Italian →
familyName	Rubbia →
fieldOfWork	experimental physics → high-energy physics → particle physics →
givenName	Carlo →
hasResidence	Italy → Switzerland →
knownFor	contributions to electroweak interaction experiments → leading the UA1 experiment at CERN →
languageSpoken	English → Italian →
memberOf	Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei → National Academy of Sciences (United States) → Pontifical Academy of Sciences → Royal Society →
name	Carlo Rubbia →
NobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
NobelPrizeMotivation	for their decisive contributions to the large project which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction →
NobelPrizeYear	1984 →
notableWork	experimental discovery of the W boson → experimental discovery of the Z boson →
placeOfBirth	Gorizia →
positionHeld	Director-General of CERN → senator for life of the Italian Republic →
sexOrGender	male →
sharesNobelPrizeWith	Simon van der Meer →
startTime	1989 (Director-General of CERN) →
workLocation	CERN → Geneva →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
University of Pavia → University of Pisa →	hasNotableAlumnus
Z boson →	associatedWithScientist
Wolf Prize in Physics →	hasLaureate
University of Pavia →	hasNobelLaureateAffiliation
Sapienza University of Rome →	hasNotableAlumni
Carlo Rubbia →	name
University of Hamburg →	notableAlumni
Simon van der Meer →	sharedNobelPrizeWith