sentences:  However he became the President of CNR since 2008.Luciano Maiani has authored over 100 scientific publications on the theory of elementary particles often with several co-authors.In 1970 he predicted the charmed quark in a paper with Glashow and Iliopoulos which was later discovered at SLAC and Brookhaven in 1974 and led to a Nobel Prize in Physics for the discoverers.