Find out how CERN is celebrating the 90th birthday of former Director-General and Nobel Prize laureate Carlo Rubbia, and how you can be involved

Carlo Rubbia’s name is closely related to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Simon van der Meer, for the work he had done as head of the UA1 collaboration

Forty years ago today, physicists at CERN announced to the world that they had discovered the electrically charged carrier of the weak force, one of nature’s four fundamental forces

The direct discovery of the W and Z bosons at the SppS in 1983 provided solid experimental support for the existence of the Higgs boson

Carlo Rubbia was recognised for his promotion of sustainable nuclear energy use and natural-gas pyrolysis

Professor Carlo Rubbia, former CERN Director-General, awarded highest scientific prize for foreign individuals by the People’s Republic of China

President of Italian Republic honours Rubbia along with neuroscientist Elena Cattaneo, musical director Claudio Abbado and architect Renzo Piano

On 25 January 1983, CERN physicists announced to the world the discovery of the W boson, an elementary particle that carries the weak force