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    Luciano Maiani (born 16 July 1941) is a Sammarinese physicist best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Glashow and John Iliopoulos...
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    Sheldon Glashow in 1964, and in 1970, Glashow, John Iliopoulos, and Luciano Maiani showed how its existence would account for experimental and theoretical...
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    Council in December 2001 to review the CERN programme. Aymar succeeded Luciano Maiani as Director-General of CERN in January 2004. He was honoured in 2006...
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    known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Glashow and Luciano Maiani (the "GIM mechanism"). Iliopoulos is also known for demonstrating the...
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    cosmic rays in 1947. In a 1970 paper, Glashow, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani presented the GIM mechanism (named from their initials) to explain the...
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    it its modern form. In 1970, Sheldon Glashow, John Iliopoulos, and Luciano Maiani introduced the GIM mechanism, predicting the charm quark. In 1973 Gross...
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    Proton decay at Super-Kamiokande Pictorial history of the IMB experiment Luciano Maiani (8 February 2006). The problem of proton decay (PDF). Third NO-VE International...
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    the GIM mechanism put forward by Sheldon Glashow, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani, which predicted the existence of the then still unobserved charm quark...
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     Italy 1994–1998 Christopher Llewellyn Smith  United Kingdom 1999–2003 Luciano Maiani  San Marino 2004–2008 Robert Aymar  France 2009–2015 Rolf-Dieter Heuer...
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  • of the Standard Model, the modern theory of Elementary Particles." Luciano Maiani 2008 Joe Polchinski "for their fundamental contributions to superstring...
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