Talk:Carlo Rubbia

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For NPOV purposes, the article should also include information about Alternating Neutral Currents, the high-y anomaly, monojets, 40 GeV top etc. Rubbia made twenty of the five biggest particle physics discoveries of the era. It seems a pity not to mention the rest.

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Conflicting sources about Ph.D. degree

The current revision of the article says:

[Rubbia] graduated on cosmic ray experiments in 1957 with Marcello Conversi. Rubbia obtained his Italian doctoral degree (Laurea) in 1958 from the University of Pisa.

The source for the latter sentence is (archived) this biography from the Oxford Dictionary of Scientists, but there are some inconsistencies:

First, I cannot find any mention of the fact that prof. Rubbia obtained a Ph.D. in neither this biography from CERN, the biography published on the novelprize.org website, or this other one from the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
Second, the dates don't match, because according to all other biographies referenced above in 1958 (until 1959), prof. Rubbia was working at Columbia University.
Third, the Laurea degree in Italy is equivalent to a Master's degree. Even if, according to Italian law, the Laurea confers the title of "Dottore" (Doctor) to the holder of the degree, this is not equivalent to a Ph.D.: «The title for BA and BS undergraduate students is Dottore and for MA, MFA, MD and MEd graduate students Dottore magistrale (abbreviated Dott., Dott.ssa or Dr.). This should not be confused with PhD and post-MA graduates, whose title is Dottore di Ricerca (Research Doctor).» (from the section about Italy in Bologna Process). So one problem of the sentence above is that is seems to say that prof. Rubbia graduated, i.e. he obtained his Laurea in 1957, but somehow also in 1958.
Fourth, in Italy PhDs are awarded since 1980 (see the section about Italy in Doctor of Philosophy). However, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (not the University of Pisa) awards since 1927 a degree "Diploma di Perfezionamento" that has been established as equivalent to a Ph.D. when the Ph.D. has been introduced in the Italian education system.

For these reasons, I am adding a Confusing template to that section. --CristianCantoro (talk) 14:12, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions for sections

Hello, within the Career and research section i believe it would be highly beneficial to split up the section and add subheadings maybe by research project or via job role? if anyone has any ideas to best do this let me know Connorcp (talk) 11:58, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]