Nicola Cabibbo

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Nicola Cabibbo
Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • Notable studentsGiorgio Parisi

    Nicola Cabibbo (10 April 1935 – 16 August 2010[1]) was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on the weak interaction.

    Life

    Cabibbo, son of a Sicilian lawyer, was born in

    INFN from 1983 to 1992, during which time the Gran Sasso Laboratory was inaugurated. He was also president of the Italian energy agency, ENEA, from 1993 to 1998, and was president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences from 1993 until his death.[3] In 2004, Cabibbo spent a year at CERN as guest professor,[2] joining the NA48/2 collaboration
    .

    Work

    eigenstate vector space
    formed by the mass eigenstates into the weak eigenstate vector space formed by the weak eigenstates . The rotation angle is θC = 13.04°.
    Makoto Kobayashi

    Cabibbo's major work on the weak interaction originated from a need to explain two observed phenomena:

    Cabibbo addressed these issues, following

    Cabibbo angle
    ), between the down and strange quarks. Modern measurements show that θC = 13.04°.

    Before the discovery of the third

    Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa to the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix. In 2008, Kobayashi and Maskawa shared one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work. Some physicists had bitter feelings that the Nobel Prize committee failed to reward Cabibbo for his vital part.[5][6][7] Asked for a reaction on the prize, Cabibbo preferred to give no comment. According to sources close to him, however, he was embittered.[8]

    Later, Cabibbo researched applications of

    APE 1000
    .

    Cabibbo supported attempts to rehabilitate executed Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, citing the apologies on Galileo Galilei as a possible model to correct the historical wrongs done by the Church.[9]

    After his death in 2011, the

    Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.[10]

    Death

    He died from respiratory problems in a Rome hospital on August 16, 2010, at the age of 75.[11]

    For his credits in physics, after his death, a classroom within La Sapienza's "Enrico Fermi" Physics New Department has been named after him in his honour.[12]

    See also

    References

    1. ^ "Morto il fisico Cabibbo Gli fu negato il Nobel". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 16 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
    2. ^ a b Altarelli, Guido; Maiani, Luciano; Petronzio, Roberto. "Nicola Cabibbo 1935–2010" (PDF). CERN Courier. 50 (9): 39.
    3. S2CID 205058805
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    4. ^ Introduced by Murray Gell-Mann and Maurice Lévy, in M. Gell-Mann, M. Lévy (1960). "The Axial Vector Current in Beta Decay".
      S2CID 122945049
      .      and referenced by Cabbibo in his paper
    5. ^ 闫同民 (2013). "与2008年诺贝尔物理奖失之交臂的物理学家". 物理双月刊. 35: 354–357.
    6. ^ Valerie Jamieson (7 October 2008). "Physics Nobel snubs key researcher". New Scientist. Retrieved 2009-11-06.
    7. ^ "Overlooked for the Nobel: Nicola Cabibbo". Physics World. 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
    8. ^ "Nobel, l'amarezza dei fisici italiani" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 7 October 2008. Retrieved 2009-11-06.
    9. ^ "Un scientifique évoque la réhabilitation d'un théologien brûlé pour hérésie" (in French). Archived from the original on 2009-05-30.
    10. ^ "Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics". Franklin Institute. 2011. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
    11. ^ "Nicola Cabibbo".
    12. ^ "Docenti | Dipartimento di Fisica".

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