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Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg 1933-, American nuclear physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Princeton Univ., 1957. He helped develop important theories of electromagnetic and nuclear particle interaction that were experimentally verified in 1982-83 when Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer identified the subatom... Read more
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Carlo Rubbia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Carlo Rubbia 1934-, Italian physicist, Ph.D. Univ...the Univ. of Rome and later at Harvard, Rubbia did his most important work with Simon...awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics. Rubbia also led a research team that produced...
Steven Weinberg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...important theories of electromagnetic and nuclear particle interaction that were experimentally verified in 1982-83 when Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer identified the subatomic particles W and Z. In 1979, Weinberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with...
Simon van der Meer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...van der Meer 1925-, Dutch physical engineer. He spent his career at CERN , where he did his most important work with Carlo Rubbia . They discovered the subatomic particles W and Z, which convey the weak force, one of nature's four fundamental forces...

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In Pursuit Of the Grand Prize; Physicist Carlo Rubbia's Obsessive Quest
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/16/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...Random House. 261 pp. $19.95 Carlo Rubbia has an odd theory about physics. "Physicists...Research (CERN) accelerator in Geneva, Rubbia applied this philosophy, driving 135...Taubes, in "Nobel Dreams," tracks Rubbia from his days as a young physicist when...
Nobel laurate Rubbia warns against continued fossil fuel use
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 6/12/2008; 462 words ; Nobel laurate Rubbia warns against continued fossil fuel use...Italy's Nobel-winning physicist Carlo Rubbia called for a dramatic reduction in the...year at the prestigious Lincei Academy, Rubbia said that fossil fuels had to be replaced...
Scientist: New Nuclear Source Safer, More Potent
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/24/1993; 607 words ; ROME Italian Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia said Tuesday he had found a theoretical...less hazardous than accepted methods. Rubbia, director of the Geneva-based European...most efficient combustible there is," Rubbia told Italian radio. "It produces 140...
In Theory, a New Route to Nuclear Energy
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/24/1993; 474 words ; Italian Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia said today he has found a theoretical...less hazardous than accepted methods. Rubbia, director of the Geneva-based European...efficient combustible there is," Rubbia told Italian radio. "It produces...
NOBEL DREAMS COMPELLING STORY DOESN'T HOLD ATTENTION.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/1/1987; 700+ words ; ...ambition, an Italian physicist named Carlo Rubbia strikes a Faustian bargain with Machiavelli...takes away any driving force or will - Rubbia presses to surpass himself but this time...First, Taubes never makes of Carlo Rubbia the monster that his drama seems to require...
Smaller European Project Could Steal Super Collider's Glory
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/10/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...the American Physical Society, Carlo Rubbia, the hard-charging director of the...construction schedule for his LHC. While Rubbia must still prove to the 15 member-nations...subatomic particles are smashed by the SSC. Rubbia also said his machine can be built for...
Accelerator route to nuclear energy. (particle accelerators used in power-generating fission reactions) (Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 1/1/1994; 700+ words ; ...and plutonium. Now, physicist Carlo Rubbia, director of the European Laboratory...to help sustain the nuclear reaction. Rubbia concedes that his idea is highly speculative...nuclei. However, critics have questioned Rubbia's claims, and many nuulear experts...
ROGUES VITAL INGREDIENT IN RECIPE FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 9/13/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...describes Italian Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia, who in 1984 broke the American lock on the physics prize: ``(Rubbia) ... is renowned for his frenetic...results. ... And physicists who knew Rubbia at the time suggested that ... his...
A waste of a good idea?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/3/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...without nuclear waste. That is what Carlo Rubbia and his colleagues first proposed in 1993...production called the energy amplifier. Rubbia, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics...the thorium is used up. According to Rubbia, the quantity of energy produced by the...
NUCLEAR RESEARCH: CERN DIRECTOR PROPOSES NEW SOURCE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
Newspaper article from: Europe Energy; 12/3/1993; 700+ words ; ...for Nuclear Research) Director Carlo Rubbia in Geneva on November 24 to nuclear physicists...the world attending a seminar there. Mr Rubbia, a Nobel laureate, wants to replace...nuclear fusion have been disappointing. Mr Rubbia describes his plan, in the latest CERN...