Guido Altarelli (12 July 1941 – 30 September 2015) was an Italian theoretical physicist.

Biography

Altarelli graduated in Physics from the

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in 1963 with Raoul Gatto whom he followed to the

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(1965–68). He held positions at New York University (1968–69), the

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(New York, 1969–70), the

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in Paris (1976–77, 81) and

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(1985–86). In 1970-92 he held a faculty position at the Sapienza University of Rome (full professor of theoretical physics since 1980). He was Director of the Rome Section of the INFN (1985–87). In 1992 he moved to the newly established University of Roma Tre. In 1987-2006 he was a Senior Staff Physicist at the Theory Division of

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, and was Theory Division Leader from 2000-04. At CERN he had a leading role in the interpretation of SppS results, in the preparation of LEP and the LHC and in the theoretical analysis of the experimental results. His best known contribution, obtained with

Giorgio Parisi Giorgio Parisi (born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions are the QCD evolution equations for parton densit ...

in 1977, is the derivation of the

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evolution equations for parton densities, known as the Altarelli- Parisi or

DGLAP The Dokshitzer–Gribov–Lipatov–Altarelli–Parisi (DGLAP) evolution equations are equations in QCD describing the variation of parton distribution functions with varying energy scales. Experimentally observed scaling violation in deep inelasti ...

equations.

Awards

* Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences * 2011 Julius Wess Award for Outstanding Achievements in Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics - The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * 2012 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics - The American Physical Society * High Energy and Particle Physics Prize - EPS HEPP Prize, 2015.

References

External links

Scientific publications of Guido Altarelli
on

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1941 births 2015 deaths People associated with CERN 20th-century Italian physicists J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients Sapienza University of Rome alumni Sapienza University of Rome faculty 21st-century Italian physicists {{Italy-physicist-stub