Nicola Cabibbo#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2529 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Nicola Cabibbo passed away August 16, 2010.
Positions Held
- 2000-2010 Professor of physics at the University of Rome, La Sapienza
- 1993-2010 President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- 1983-1992 President of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics
- 1982-2000 Professor of physics at the University Tor Vergata, Rome
- 1966-1982 Professor of physics at the University of Rome, La Sapienza
- 1965-1966 Professor of theoretical physics at the University of L’Aquila
- 1963-1964 Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 1962-63 and 1964-1966 Researcher at CERN
- 1958-1962 Researcher at the National Institue for Kernphysik (INFN)
- 1958 PhD from the University La Sapienza
Fields of Scholarship
- Weak interaction between quarks
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Dirac Medal
- 2002 Matteucci Medal of the Italian Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Benemerito della Cultura e della Scienza
- 1991 European Physical Society Prize
- 1989 Spezial Award for scietific research of the Italian prime minister
- 1989 Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society
- 1979 "National Prize of the President of the Republic" of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
