Fabiola Gianotti
OCT 29, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031081
Happy birthday Fabiola Gianotti! Born in 1960 in Rome, Gianotti earned a PhD in particle physics at the University of Milan. She has spent almost all of her professional career at CERN, where she was a member of several experiment teams, including the UA2 experiment, which discovered the W and Z bosons in 1983, and the ATLAS experiment, which discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. By the time of the Higgs discovery, Gianotti was serving as the leader of the ATLAS experiment. On 1 January she will become CERN’s director general and the first woman to hold the four-year post.
Date in History: 29 October 1960
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