Guido Tonelli
Italian particle physicist
Guido Tonelli is an Italian particle physicist who was a leading figure in finding the Higgs boson with the Large Hadron Collider.
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Italian Born 1950 in Casola in Lunigiana, Italy
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About Guido Tonelli
Guido Tonelli was born in 1950 in Casola in Lunigiana, Italy. He holds a professorship in General Physics at the University of Pisa and is a visiting scientist at CERN. His honors include the Fundamental Physics Prize and the Enrico Fermi prize of the Italian Physical Society, both in 2013, and a medal of honor from the President of the Republic in 2014. He is also the author of Genesis, which appeared in Italian as Genesi in 2019.