Raoul Gatto

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Raffaele Raoul Gatto (born December 8, 1930 in Catania ; † September 30, 2017 ) was an Italian theoretical physicist who dealt with particle physics.

He was professor of theoretical physics in Cagliari from 1960 to 1962 and in Florence from 1962 to 1968, where Gabriele Veneziano was one of his students (Laurea's degree in 1965) and Guido Altarelli his doctoral student. He also taught at the universities of Rome and Padua. He was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Radiation Laboratory) and later at CERN in the theory department. He also held a professorship at the University of Geneva (1976–1995).

In 1960 he and Nicola Cabibbo investigated experiments on electron-positron storage rings (at that time still a long way off). In the 1950s and 1960s, he studied the weak decays of strange particles . For this and for his long-standing leadership role in elementary particle physics, he received the Premio Enrico Fermi in 2003 .

In 1975 he received the Premio Nazionale of the Accademia dei Lincei from the hand of the President of the Republic of Italy.

In 1971 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Turin. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1996 and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972 .

He was a member of the international advisory committee of the SLAC .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data at the academy in Turin and who's who in Italy ( Memento from April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Obituaries , accessed October 5, 2017
  3. ↑ Veneziano Two unforgettable years with Hector , pdf , meaning Hector Rubinstein
  4. ↑ Cabibbo, Gatto Electron-Positron Colliding Beam Experiments , Phys. Review, Volume 124, 1961, p. 1577, and Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 4, 1960, p. 313, Nuovo Cimento, Vol. 20, 1961, p. 184
personal data
SURNAME Gatto, Raoul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gatto, Raffaele Raoul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Catania
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2017