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...Rubbia, who has taken several leaves of absence since 1977 to work at the CERN atomic research center near Geneva, will teach the graduate-level Physics 248, "Topics in Nuclear and/or Particle Physics" this spring before he returns to Europe in May to continue research...
Fellow physicists yesterday hailed the discovery of the W particle and many said that Rubbia stands a good chance of winning the Nobel Prize this October...
...Rubbia said Monday in an interview from his Geneva home that his American colleagues were "not very interested" when he and a small group of scientists proposed a scheme to produce the W particle. "There was a hell of a lot of opposition when we submitted our proposal," Rubbia said, noting that Harvard was among the institutions that declined to sponsor the multi-million dollar project...
...Higgens Professor of Physics, and Pakistani physicist Adbus Salam predicted the location and weight of the W and Z particles as early as 1967. Weinberg, Salam, and current Higgins Professor of Physics Scheldon L. Glashow shared the Nobel Prize in 1979 for their work on the unification theories. "If Rubbia had not confirmed the existence of the W particle, theoretical physicists would have been running around emitting sharp cries," Weinberg, who now teaches at the University of Texas, said yesterday...
...This is a monumental and fantastic achievement, Glashow agreed yesterday, adding that a Nobel Prize for Rubbia is "perfectly plausible...