What is Carlo Rubbia?
[[File:Carlo Rubbia 2012.jpg|right|200px]] {{nobelprize|Physics}}'''Carlo Rubbia''', {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic|OMRI]], [[Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art|OMCA]]}} (born 31 March 1934) is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Particle physics|particle physicist]] and [[inventor]]. He shared the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1984 with [[Simon van der Meer]] for work leading to the discovery of the [[W and Z bosons|W and Z particles]] at [[CERN]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Darriulat |first1=Pierre |title=The W and Z particles: a personal recollection |journal=CERN Courier |year=2004 |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=13–16 |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1733604}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=CERN honours Carlo Rubbia as he turns 75 |journal=CERN Courier |date=June 2009 |volume=49 |issue=5 |page=27 |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1734391}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Catapano |first1=Paola |title=Carlo Rubbia: a passion for physics and a craving for new ideas |journal=CERN Courier |date=September 2014 |url=http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/58540 |access-date=2021-07-24 |archive-date=2016-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602115747/http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/58540 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1984/press.html Nobel prize press release about Rubbia]</ref> He was born in [[Gorizia]], [[Italy]].<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064313?query=rubbia&ct= Article on Carlo Rubbia from Encyclopædia Britannica]</ref><ref>[http://www.casinapioiv.va/content/accademia/en/academicians/ordinary/rubbia.html Carlo Rubbia's biography and lectures on the website] of the [[Pontifical Academy of Sciences]]</ref><ref>[https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Rubbia.1 Scientific publications of Carlo Rubbia] on [[INSPIRE-HEP]]</ref> He also promoted [[nuclear power]] and [[particle accelerator]] by [[thorium]]. He was elected a member of the [[Pontifical Academy of Science]] and the [[Academia Europaea]] i