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Carlo Rubbia

1934 - Today

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Carlo Rubbia (born 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Rubbia is the 263rd most popular physicist (up from 276th in 2019), the 1,010th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,145th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Physicist.

Carlo Rubbia is most famous for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 for his work on the discovery of the W and Z particles.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carlo Rubbia ranks 263 out of 851. Before him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Abdus Salam, Chien-Shiung Wu, Serge Haroche, Julian Schwinger, and Toshihide Maskawa. After him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, Johannes Rydberg, Jack Steinberger, and Yang Chen-Ning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Carlo Rubbia ranks 53. Before him are Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, Niklaus Wirth, Alan Arkin, Lansana Conté, John L. Hall, and Albert Speer. After him are Wole Soyinka, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Yasuo Takamori, John Surtees, Masao Uchino, and Jonas Savimbi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Rubbia ranks 1,010 out of 5,161. Before him are Gerard of Cremona (1114), Daniele da Volterra (1509), Hormizd I (250), Umberto Giordano (1867), Piero Ferrari (1945), and Hugo Pratt (1927). After him are Aristoxenus (-360), Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755), Francesca Caccini (1587), Elsa Morante (1912), Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753), and Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Carlo Rubbia ranks 9. Before him are Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Emilio Segrè (1905), Laura Bassi (1711), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), and Ettore Majorana (1906). After him are Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Galileo Ferraris (1847), and Federico Faggin (1941).

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