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Italian physicist (born 1929)

Zichichi in 2006

Antonino Zichichi (Italian pronunciation: [antoˈniːno ddziˈkiːki]; born 15 October 1929) is an Italian physicist who has worked in the field of nuclear physics. He has served as President of the World Federation of Scientists and as a professor at the University of Bologna.

Biography

Zichichi was born in Trapani, Sicily, in 1929. He has collaborated on several discoveries in the field of sub-nuclear physics and has worked in numerous research laboratories such as Fermilab in Chicago and CERN in Geneva. In 1963, he founded the Centro Ettore Majorana of Erice, dedicated to scientific culture. The Ettore Majorana centre sponsors the International School of Subnuclear Physics, where Zichichi serves as director.

He was president of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare from 1977 up to 1982 and in 1980 he strongly backed the creation of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. Since 1978 he served also as President of the European Physical Society for over 10 years.

Currently, he is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Bologna. He is president of the World Federation of Scientists, an organization concerned with the fight against planetary emergencies. In 1982, with P. A. M. Dirac and Pyotr Kapitsa, he drafted the Erice statement. Zichichi gave the opening talk at the 4-day international symposium Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future held in 2011 in Vatican City.

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Publications

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References

  1. Zichichi, Antonino (July 2006). "Ettore Majorana: genius and mystery". CERN Courier. 46 (6): 23–26.
  2. Zichichi, Antonino (October 2009). "The queen of all sciences and Intelligent Design". CERN Courier. 49 (8): 42.
  3. Angelica La Rosa (17 December 2020). "Antonino Zichichi: "se fossimo figli del caos, non potrebbero esistere le leggi fondamentali della natura".
  4. "Antonino Zichichi". Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
  5. "The Fermi Fountain". European Physical Society.
  6. "The World Federation of Scientists home page". WFS. Archived from the original on 7 August 2008. Retrieved 14 July 2008.
  7. "Sicily Establishes Large Award for Scientific Culture". Physics Today. 43 (2): 116. February 1990. doi:10.1063/1.2810454.
  8. Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo; Zichichi, Antonino, eds. (2014). Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future; Proceedings of the International Symposium, held 30 October - 2 November 2011, held in Vatican City. Scripta Varia, volume 119. Pontifical Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-88-7761-107-9; 594 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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