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The Italian Factor at Fermilab: Giorgio Bellettini in a conversation moderated by Paul Grannis

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The Italian Factor at Fermilab

Giorgio Bellettini
Honorary Professor in Physics at the University of Pisa and Guest Scientist at Fermilab

in a conversation moderated by

Paul Grannis
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University

Opening remarks by

Cinzia Zuffada

President of Italian Scientists and Scholar in North America Foundation
Associate Chief Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

and

Thomas Botzios
Consul General of Italy in Chicago

 

Organized by the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF) and presented in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Italian Consulate General of Chicago, as part of the #weareISSNAF series, introducing some of ISSNAF leading members and their fascinating research.

 

we are issnaf

 

A very significant outcome of the long-standing collaborative effort of Italians and North American nuclear physicists is the present deep involvement of Italians in the scientific and cultural life of Fermilab. Giorgio Bellettini reflects on a scientific career that started in the sixties, spanned two continents and was marked by a strong collaboration between American and Italian physicists, such as on the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, where over 100 Italian scientists participated. His deep, constant involvement with Americans shaped many significant events, including two important scientific discoveries. After the end of CDF data-taking ten years ago, the Italian INFN is participating strongly in new world-class experiments at Fermilab and is looking to play an important role in the exploration of neutrino physics, the field where Italians have been making important contributions and on which the Lab is betting for future fundamental discoveries. Additionally, the Cultural Association of Italians at Fermilab, created by Bellettini to enable Italian students to train in the USA and to spread the Italian language, music and culture in the US, is another aspect of his important legacy.

Giorgio Bellettini is Honorary Professor in physics at the university of Pisa, where he retired in 2009, and Guest Scientist at Fermilab. He has made experiments in particle physics at Frascati, at CERN, and since 1980 at Fermilab. Since 1981 he was spokesperson of the Italian groups in the Collider Detector Facility (CDF) and Co-spokesperson of the international CDF Collaboration at the time of the discovery of the top quark. He was Director of the Italian National Laboratories of Frascati, Chairman of the ISR Committee and Member of the Science Policy Committee of CERN. He is an Author of over 850 refereed publications in international science journals, where many important results are reported including the discovery of the increasing with energy total proton-proton cross section at the CERN ISR and the discovery of the top quark at the Fermilab Tevatron. He is APS Fellow, Commendatore of the Italian Republic, and was honored with the Carlo Matteucci Medal by the Italian Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Paul Grannis is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. He was the co-spokesperson of the D0 Experiment at the Fermilab proton-antiproton collider in 1995 when the CDF and D0 collaborations discovered the top quark, the heaviest constituent of matter. He was awarded the 1990 Panofsky Prize by the American Physical Society.

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  • Organizzato da: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and Consulat
  • In collaborazione con: ISSNAF