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Carlo Rubbia
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Person

Carlo Rubbia

b. 1934

Italian particle physicist

Born
31 Mar 1934 · Gorizia

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 31 Mar 1934BornBorn in Gorizia
  2. 1984AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  3. 1984AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  4. 1984AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  5. 1985AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
  6. 1989AwardDirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
  7. 1989 – 1993RoleDirector General of CERN
  8. 1989AwardOfficer of the Legion of Honour
  9. 1996AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I
  10. 1999AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Savoie-Mont-Blanc
  11. 2011AwardHonorary doctor of the China University of Mining and Technology
  12. 2013RoleItalian senator for life

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1934 – today).

  1. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  2. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  3. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  4. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1938Munich Agreement
  6. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  7. 1939 – 1945World War II
  8. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  9. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  10. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Carlo Rubbia (Italian: [ˈkaɾlo ˈrubbja]; 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.

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