CARLO RUBBIA

Carlo Rubbia was born in Gorizia March 31, 1934.
He graduated in physics in 1957 in Pisa.
In 1960 he became a researcher at CERN in Geneva, where he is involved in research Concerning the physics of elementary particles.
There promotes the change of the existing SPS accelerator into a proton-antiproton collider, with this in 1983 discovered the particles that are responsible for the weak, ie the vector Bosons.
Can you also have the confirmation of the unification of the electromagnetic force and weak force into electroweak force.
From 1971 to 1988 he was professor of physics at Harvard University in Massachusetts.
From 1990 to 1993 he served as director general of CERN.
In 1994 he assumed the leadership of 'International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.
Currently he also teaches physics than Complements Pavia.
In 1984 he received, along Dutchman Simon van der Meer, Nobel laureate in Physics for these discoveries.
In the years after the Nobel became interested in energy issues and studies a safe fission reactor where the neutron chain reaction is produced by a particle accelerator.
The reactor, however, remains in draft form.
She has also worked on cosmic neutrinos, stability of the proton, controlled nuclear fusion, and now is interested about the dark matter.
The most recent activity of Carlo Rubbia has turned to the problem of energy production through new technologies, and currently he is President of the' ENEA, Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment since 1999.
The design of prof. Rubbia, called "Project Archimedes," focuses on the uptake and accumulation of sunlight with parabolic mirrors passing through a heat exchanger in which heat produces steam turbines to be placed in a group .
In 2005 the Berlusconi government humiliation critical that research in Italy is undergoing. In July of that year he was removed from office at ENEA.


Currently moved to Spain to build some solar thermal power plants designed to replace the existing power plants.
Accepted the invitation of the former Environment Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio to return to work in Italy in the development of renewable energy sources.

Quotes:

Both the fusion and fission should be pursued with equal force, to search for a new nuclear power capable of feeding mankind for millennia to come.

There is no safe nuclear. Or low-waste production. There is a probability, so every hundred years a nuclear accident is possible and this obviously increases with the number of power plants. We can talk, if anything, a nuclear innovative.


Sia la Fusione che la Fissione andrebbero perseguite con eguale vigore, alla ricerca di una nuova energia nucleare capace di alimentare l'Umanità per i millenni a venire.

Non esiste un nucleare sicuro. O a bassa produzione di scorie. Esiste un calcolo delle probabilità, per cui ogni cento anni un incidente nucleare è possibile: e questo evidentemente aumenta con il numero delle centrali. Si può parlare, semmai, di un nucleare innovativo.