Luciano Maiani

Recipient of the Skurai Prize and of the Dirac and the Pontecorvo Medals

Maiani has been General Director of CERN in Geneva and president of the Italian Research Council CNR. He is the author of influential scientific works.  He predicted the existence of the charm quark in a paper with Glashow and Iliopoulos which was later discovered at SLAC in 1974 and led to a Nobel Prize in Physics for the discoverers.