biography
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| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Gorizia, NE Italy. He studied at Pisa, Rome, and Columbia universities, and from 1960 headed the proton–antiproton collider team at CERN, Geneva. In 1972 he became professor of physics at Harvard, and in 1989–93 was director-general of CERN, after which he continued his research at CERN. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for their work leading to the discovery of the W and Z sub-atomic particles. |
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