Rubbia

[ roo-bee-uh; Italian roo-byah ]

noun

1. Car·lo [jahr, -loh, kahr, -law], born 1934, Italian physicist: Nobel Prize 1984.

Rubbia

/ ro̅o̅′bē-ə /

1. Italian physicist who discovered the W and Z bosons that carry the weak nuclear force. The existence of these subatomic particles strongly confirmed the validity of the theory of the electroweak force. For this work Rubbia shared with Dutch physicist Simon van der Meer the 1984 Nobel Prize for physics.

Example Sentences

Italian Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia dreamed up the liquid argon detector in 1977.

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Executing Rubbia's vision was an immense challenge.

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In breaks from his prize-winning work, Rubbia envisioned a 5000-ton detector that would watch for an event expected to be theoretically possible, although vanishingly rare: the decay of the proton.

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Rubbia envisioned a detector both large and precise: a large tank of liquid argon with a fine grid of wires on one side and high-voltage electrodes on the other.

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While hints of sterile neutrinos were accumulating, Rubbia and colleagues were developing ICARUS.

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