Carlo Rubbia: References & Edit History
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Gary Taubes, Novel Dreams: Power, Deceit, and the Ultimate Experiment (1986), describes how the Nobel Prize was won by Rubbia and also treats his subsequent research. Peter Watkins, Story of the W and Z (1986); and Peter Galison, How Experiments End (1987), recount in detail Rubbia’s most famous experiments and describe the team of people that worked under his direction.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Mar 27, 2026 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 04, 2024 | ||
| Noted that he left Harvard University and that he served as director-general of CERN from 1989 to 1994. | Aug 24, 2018 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Nobelprize.org - Biography of Carlo Rubbia. | Dec 29, 2016 | ||
| Added new Web site: Nobelprize.org - Biography of Carlo Rubbia. | May 30, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Feb 23, 1999 |
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