Carlo Rubbia was born in Italy and carried out his first serious scientific experiments as a young boy, using communication equipment abandoned at the end of World War II. Since his postdoctoral year at Columbia University in 1958 and 1959, Rubbia has...

Nobel Prize winners typically wait a decade or two--or even more--between the time they make their award-winning discovery and the time they actually receive the Prize. The most striking exception to that general rule occurred in 1984 when Carlo Rubbia...

1934- Italian physicist known for his contributions in particle physics, especially his discovery of the Z0 particle, for which he was awarded the 1984 Noble Prize in Physics. Rubbia was initially turned down for admission at a college for physics in...

Carlo Rubbia (born on March 31, 1934 in Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy) is an Italian physicist at CERN who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984, a prize he shared with Simon van der...

NOBEL DREAMS Power, Deceit and the Ultimate ExperimentBy Gary Taubes Random House. 261 pp. $19.95 Carlo Rubbia has an odd theory about physics. "Physicists are like lemons," he says, "you squeeze them for all they're worth, and then you throw them away." ...