Luciano Maiani

Luciano Maiani (* July 16, 1941 in Rome ) is an Italian physicist.

He received his diploma in 1964 ( Laurea ) in Physics. He then worked with the group of Raoul Gatto in Florence and was in 1969 as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University ( Lyman Laboratory of Physics ). In 1976 he became a professor at the University of Rome and in 1984 at the University La Sapienza in Rome. 1993 to 1997 he was president of the Istituto di Fisica Nucleare Nazional ( INFN ). 2008 to 2011 he was president of the Italian National Research Council, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ( CNR).

In 1977 he was a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure and 1979-1980 as well as 1985/86 Visiting Professor at CERN.

In 1970 he founded together with Sheldon Lee Glashow and John Iliopoulos the so-called GIM mechanism which predicted the existence of the charm quark.

From January 1999 to December 2003, Luciano Maiani, Director General of CERN. In 1979, he received the Matteucci Medal, 2007, the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ), the 2003 Premio Enrico Fermi and the 1987 Sakurai Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS and 2013 the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize.

In 1988 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze. In 1991 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society.