Geneva – Paolo Giubellino is the first Italian to receive the prestigious Lize Meitner Award for the “Nuclear Physics,” awarded by the Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physics Society to scientists who made contributions of particular importance to the development of experimental, theoretical or applied nuclear physics. The award ceremony took place yesterday at CERN. Giubellino is research director of INFN and international coordinator of the ALICE experiment, one of the main LHC experiments. The award stresses the value of Giubellino’s contribution in the design and construction of the ALICE detector, in addition to his role in conducting the scientific program in the last six years, bringing about important results. (9Colonne)
