Carlo RUBBIA Since 1999 President of ENEA (Italian National Agency for new technologies, energy and the environment)

	Graduated at Scuola Normale, Pisa (thesis on cosmic rays),
	PhD Columbia University, New York
since 1961	working at CERN
	In 1976, he suggested adapting CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to collide protons and antiprotons in the same ring and the world's first antiproton factory was built. The collider started running in 1981 and, in early 1983, an international team of more than 100 physicists headed by Rubbia and known as the UA1 Collaboration, detected the intermediate vector bosons.For this discovery in I1984 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
1989-1993	Director-General of the CERN
1970-1988	Higgins Professor of Physics, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts,
	Since 1999 President of ENEA (Ente Nazionale per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente). Carlo Rubbia is Full Professor of Physics at Pavia University, in Italy.

The Accademia dei Lincei
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences
The Royal Society (Foreign Member)
The Russian Academy of Sciences (Foreign Member)
The American Academy of Sciences (Foreign Member)
The Austrian Academy of Sciences

1984 Nobel Prize for Physics
Numerous honours: "Cavaliere di Gran Croce" (Knight Grand Cross) of the Italian Republic in 1985, "Officier de la Légion d'Honneur" of the French Republic, Polish Order of Merit in 1993.

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