Luciano Maiani

Former President CERN, INFN, CNR, Dirac Medal, Sakurai Prize, Bruno Pontecorvo Prize, Matteucci Medal

Maiani served as Director General of CERN in Geneva and President of the National Research Council (CNR). He is the author of highly influential scientific papers. In a paper co-authored with Glashow and Iliopoulos, he predicted the existence of the charm quark, which was subsequently discovered at SLAC in 1974 and earned its discoverers the Nobel Prize in Physics.