Word: rubbia
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While most Nobel Prize winners are traditionally informed of their award by the Nobel Prize committee, Professor of Physics Carlo Rubbia learned of his success yesterday in a most unusual...
Routinely travelling in a taxi cab in Italy to catch an afternoon airplane flight to his home in Geneva yesterday, Rubbia, much to his surprise, heard over the car radio that he had won the the prestigeous award...
...driver, unaware that newest Nobel laureate was riding in his taxi, turned to Rubbia and remarked how interesting it was that an Italian had won the prize...
...then told him that I thought so too, because that person is me," Rubbia said...
This summer Rubbia found the sixth quark, one of the most sought-after discoveries in modern physics. Quarks are thought to be the basic building blocks of all larger atomic particles. Scientists have long predicted the existence of six quarks; five were known, and Rubbia's finding completed the roster...