PHYSICIST

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlo Rubbia has received more than 290,039 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Carlo Rubbia is the 275th most popular physicist (up from 289th in 2019), the 1,145th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,328th in 2019) and the 8th 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 275 out of 851. Before him are Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Hugh David Politzer, Johannes Rydberg, Edmond Becquerel, and August Kundt. After him are Leo Esaki, Ernest Walton, Toshihide Maskawa, Antoine César Becquerel, Carl von Linde, and Osborne Reynolds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Carlo Rubbia ranks 61. Before him are John Surtees, Giovanni Battista Re, Jan Švankmajer, Rudolf Schuster, Alfred Schnittke, and Mohamed Farrah Aidid. After him are Heng Samrin, Stanislav Shushkevich, Marshall Rosenberg, Édith Cresson, Lansana Conté, and Eduard Khil.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Rubbia ranks 1,145 out of 5,161. Before him are William III of Sicily (1185), Francesco Albani (1578), Vladimir Bartol (1903), Ivanoe Bonomi (1873), Carlo Ginzburg (1939), and Gillo Pontecorvo (1919). After him are Constantina (325), Francesco Geminiani (1687), Constantius Gallus (325), Erasmo of Narni (1370), Bianca Cappello (1548), and Saint Maurus (512).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Carlo Rubbia ranks 8. Before him are Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Laura Bassi (1711), Emilio Segrè (1905), and Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618). After him are Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Galileo Ferraris (1847), and Carlo Matteucci (1811).

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