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...team of scientists in Geneva, headed by Professor of Physics Carlo Rubbia, has found evidence of a sixth kind of quark, one of the most sought after discoveries in modern physics...
Physicists who study particles of matter smaller than atoms have predicted that six quarks would ultimately be found If Rubbia's findings are confirmed, it would complete the roster...
...discovery, however, was not totally unexpected. "It just didn't pop out of the garden," said Rubbia, who was contacted in Geneva earlier this week...
...European physics community struggling to get back on its feet after World War II. It also irritated American scientists, who had regarded themselves as the world champions in high-energy physics. Ironically, the leader of the successful CERN experiment, who may win a Nobel Prize, was Italian Physicist Carlo Rubbia, a faculty member at Harvard. He had originally proposed it to Fermilab, which decided to concentrate on the new machine instead...
Even rival American physicists were impressed. At Fermilab, the big U.S. accelerator center outside Chicago, Chris Quigg whimsically conceded, "They walk like Ws and talk like Ws." Rubbia was both ebullient and philosophical. Noting that scientists have been chopping matter into ever finer pieces since the time of the Greeks, he said, "We may not yet be at the end of the ladder...