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Carlo Rubbia
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Was born in Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March 1934. He graduated at Scuola
Normale in Pisa, where he completed his University education with a thesis
on Cosmic Ray Experiments. He has been working at CERN since 1961. 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 bui/t. 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 UA 1 Collaboration, detecfed the in term e dia te vector
bosons. In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. Carlo Rubbia
has served as Director-General of the CERN from 1 January 1989 till
Oecember 1993. From 1970 to December 1988 Rubbia has spent one
semester per year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetfs,
where he was Higgins Professor of Physics. Since 1999 he is the President of
ENEA. Carlo Rubbia is Full Professor of Physics at Pavia University, in Italy.

Abstract: Fermi's Confribufion to fhe World's Energy Supp/y
The contributions of Enrico Fermi in the field of Energy production will be
reviewed, primarily on his early developments of the Nuclear Reactor. The
immense consequences of such an invention will be discussed, with
particular relevance on the present status of nuclear power and about its
future, in the light of the present concerns on emissions of conventional fossil
fuels. The main problems with an extended world-wide use of nuclear power
will be discussed, including possible alternatives in order to alleviate them.