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'''Ugo Amaldi'''; born 26 August 1934, is an Italian physicist, mainly working in the fields of particle and medical physics.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Amaldi |first=Ugo |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-08870-9 |title=Particle Accelerators: From Big Bang Physics to Hadron Therapy |date=2015 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-319-08869-3 |location=Cham |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-08870-9|bibcode=2015pabb.book.....A }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86836646/ |title=Amaldi, Ugo |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=December 18, 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Amaldi studied at the University of Rome where he graduated in physics in 1957.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ugo Amaldi |url=https://www.scienzainrete.it/autori/amaldi/383 |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Scienza in rete |language=it}}</ref>

He started his career as a researcher at the [[Istituto Superiore di Sanità|Italian National Institute of Health]] (ISS), where he later became research director. Shortly after he took up the appointment, Amaldi led an ISS group of physicists carrying out nuclear physics experiments at the laboratory [[CERN]] in [[Geneva]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Amaldi |first1=Ugo |last2=Selleri |first2=Franco |date=1962-12-15 |title=Nucleon-Nucleon Diffraction Scattering |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.128.2772 |journal=Physical Review |volume=128 |issue=6 |pages=2772–2783 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.128.2772|bibcode=1962PhRv..128.2772A }}</ref>

As of 1973 he became CERN staff member.<ref name=":1" /> From 1980 to 1993 he served as spokesman for the [[DELPHI experiment|DELPHI Collaboration]], which operated an experiment at the [[Large Electron–Positron Collider|Large Electron-Positron Collider]] (LEP). Amaldi retired officially from CERN in 1999, when he reached the fixed retirement age of 65.

Between 1990 and 2006 Amaldi was physics professor at the universities in Florence and Milan.

Amaldi is founder and president of the TERA foundation—registered in Italy—since its creation in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TERA - Fondazione per Adroterapia Oncologica |url=https://www.tera.it/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=www.tera.it}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web | title=Ugo Amaldi: Physics to help cure people | website=CERN | url=https://public-archive.web.cern.ch/public-archive/en/People/Amaldi-en.html | access-date=22 September 2018}}</ref> The foundation works within the field of tumour therapy with hadronic radiations. The foundation has played a central role in the design of the [[:it::Centro_Nazionale_di_Adroterapia_Oncologica|Italian National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy]] (CNAO).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Amaldi |first=Ugo |year=2004 |title=CNAO-the Italian centre for light-ion therapy |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167814004800471 |journal=Radiotherapy and Oncology |language=en |volume=73 |pages=S191–S201 |doi=10.1016/S0167-8140(04)80047-1|pmid=15971341 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 2016 the foundation engaged in a proposal to construct a facility for charged particle cancer therapy for the South Eastern European countries.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Amaldi |first1=Ugo |last2=Benedetto |first2=Elena |last3=Damjanovic |first3=Sanja |last4=Dosanjh |first4=Manjit |last5=Durante |first5=Marco |last6=Georgieva |first6=Petya |last7=Haberer |first7=Thomas |last8=Plesko |first8=Mark |last9=Ristova |first9=Mimoza |last10=Rossi |first10=Sandro |last11=Sammut |first11=Nicholas |last12=Sapinski |first12=Mariusz |last13=Schopper |first13=Herwig |last14=Specht |first14=Hans |last15=Voss |first15=Rudiger |date=2021-01-29 |title=South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST) |journal=Frontiers in Physics |volume=8 |page=610 |doi=10.3389/fphy.2020.567466 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2021FrP.....8..610A |issn=2296-424X}}</ref>

== Research and publications ==
In the early 1970s, Amaldi co-discovered the proton-proton rising cross-section through experiments carried out at the CERN accelerator [[Intersecting Storage Rings]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Amaldi |first=Ugo |title=60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveries |chapter=An ISR Discovery: The Rise of the Proton–Proton Cross-Section |series=Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics |volume=23 |pages=257–286 |year=2015 |chapter-url=http://cds.cern.ch/record/2103292 |access-date=2024-04-08 |publisher=WORLD SCIENTIFIC |language=en |doi=10.1142/9789814644150_0011 |isbn=978-981-4644-14-3}}</ref> In 1975 he founded with K. Winter the CHARM Collaboration, which performed many fundamental experiments on neutrino scattering. In 1991, using the first LEP data he gave a widely recognized contribution to the understanding of the unification of the electroweak and strong forces.

Amaldi co-authored in 1984, with his [[Edoardo Amaldi|father]] and [[:it::Ginestra_Giovene|mother]], an updated version of a well known physics textbook in three volumes for Italian high schools.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Fisica. Per il Liceo scientifico (Vol. 1) : E.Amaldi, G.Amaldi, U.Amaldi: Amazon.it: Libri | id={{ASIN|8808026124|country=it}} }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Fisica. Per il Liceo scientifico (Vol. 3) : G. Amaldi, E. Amaldi, U. Amaldi: Amazon.it: Libri |id={{ASIN|8808048322|country=it}} }}</ref> The first edition, ''Corso di fisica'' by his parents only, was published in 1952 and was a rework of the original book authored by [[Enrico Fermi]]. After all these years, the book has continued to be published in new editions for years, in 2020 under the title ''Il nuovo Amaldi''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Il nuovo Amaldi per i licei scientifici.blu - Zanichelli |url=https://www.zanichelli.it/ricerca/prodotti/amaldiscientificiblu |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=www.zanichelli.it}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
[[File:ITA OMRI 2001 Com BAR.svg|50px]] Commander ''(Commendatore Ordine)'' of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]] (2008).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 June 2008 |title=President of the Italian Republic: Onorificenze—Dettaglio decorato—Ugo Amaldi |url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/266501 |language=Italian}}</ref>

Amaldi holds honorary doctorates from [[University of Uppsala]] (1993),<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1993 |title=People and things |url=http://cds.cern.ch/record/1732186/ |journal=CERN Courier |volume=33 |issue=7 |pages=33}}</ref> [[University of Lyon]] (1997),<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1997 |title=People and things |url=http://cds.cern.ch/record/1732635 |journal=CERN Courier |volume=37 |issue=10 |pages=28}}</ref> [[University of Valencia]] (1999)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ceremony naming Ugo Amaldi doctor honoris causa |url=http://www.uv.es/uvweb/office-principal/en/awards-distinctions/honoris-causa-doctors/honoris-causa-doctors-21st-century/date-investiture/ceremony-naming-ugo-amaldi-doctor-honoris-causa-1285872205625/Honoris.html?id=1285878431367 |accessdate=December 18, 2016 |publisher=uv.es}}</ref> and [[University of Helsinki]] (2000).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Honorary doctors {{!}} University of Helsinki |url=https://www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/people/honorary-doctors |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=www.helsinki.fi |language=en}}</ref> He is a Fellow of the [[European Physical Society]], a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at [[Technical University of Munich]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Distinguished Professors |url=http://www.professoren.tum.de/en/distinguished-professors/ |accessdate=December 18, 2016 |publisher=tum.de}}</ref> member of the [[Accademia dei Lincei]], and was awarded the inaugural [[Bruno Pontecorvo Prize]] by [[JINR]].<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1997 |title=A year in photographs |url=http://cds.cern.ch/record/1516864/files/Annual%20report%201996%20%20Volume%201.pdf |journal=CERN Annual Report |volume=1996 |issue=1 |pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CV |url=https://indico.cern.ch/event/388256/attachments/1133653/1621293/CV_of_Ugo_Amaldi_1.pdf |accessdate=December 18, 2016 |publisher=cern.ch}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Amaldi resides in [[Cologny]] in the canton of Geneva. He is the son of the first [[CERN]] secretary general [[Edoardo Amaldi]] and physicist [[:it::Ginestra_Giovene|Ginestra Giovene Amaldi]], and the grandson of mathematician [[Ugo Amaldi (mathematician)|Ugo Amaldi]].<ref name=":0" />

==References==
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==External links==
* {{INSPIRE-HEP author|U.Amaldi.1}}

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