Luciano Maiani

Luciano Maiani
Maiani in 1996
Born (1941-06-16) June 16, 1941 (age 83)
Alma materSapienza University of Rome
Known forGIM mechanism
Charm quark
AwardsMatteucci Medal (1979)
Sakurai Prize (1987)
Dirac Medal (ICTP) (2007)
Bruno Pontecorvo Prize (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
InstitutionsSapienza University of Rome
CERN
INFN

Luciano Maiani (born 16 July 1941[1]) is a Sammarinese physicist. He is best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Glashow and John Iliopoulos (the "GIM mechanism").[2]

  1. ^ "Archives of Luciano Maiani (1941-), Director-General of CERN from 1999 to 2003". CERN. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  2. ^ Glashow, S. L.; Iliopoulos, J.; Maiani, L. (1970). "Weak Interactions with Lepton-Hadron Symmetry". Physical Review D. 2 (7): 1285–1292. Bibcode:1970PhRvD...2.1285G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.2.1285.

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