Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian experimental particle physicist who is the current and first woman Director-General at CERN in Switzerland.
24 Facts About Fabiola Gianotti
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From an early age, Fabiola Gianotti was interested in nature and the world around her.
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Fabiola Gianotti found her passion for scientific research after reading a biography on Marie Curie.
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Fabiola Gianotti received a PhD in experimental particle physics from the Physics department of the University of Milan in 1989.
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Since 1996, Fabiola Gianotti has worked at CERN, starting with a fellowship and continuing to become a full-time research physicist.
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Fabiola Gianotti worked on the WA70, UA2 and ALEPH experiments at CERN, where she was involved in detector development, software development and data analysis.
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Fabiola Gianotti has since been reappointed for a second term, which will end in 2025.
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Fabiola Gianotti has been a member of several international committees, such as the Scientific Council of the CNRS in France, the Physics Advisory Committee of Fermilab in the US, the Council of the European Physical Society, the Scientific Council of the DESY Laboratory in Germany, and the Scientific Advisory Committee of NIKHEF in the Netherlands.
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Fabiola Gianotti is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary-General.
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Fabiola Gianotti was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2018.
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Fabiola Gianotti is a member of the Italian Academy of Sciences, a foreign associate member of the US National Academy of Sciences and foreign associate of the French Academy of Science.
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Fabiola Gianotti was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
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Fabiola Gianotti is associated with the Experimental Particle Physics Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh.
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Fabiola Gianotti appeared in the 2013 documentary film Particle Fever about work at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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On 4 July 2012 Fabiola Gianotti announced the discovery of the particle.
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Fabiola Gianotti is the author or co-author of more than 500 publications in peer reviewed scientific journals.
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Fabiola Gianotti has given more than 30 invited plenary talks at the major international conferences in the field.
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Fabiola Gianotti had to push past barriers to be successful in a male dominated field.
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Fabiola Gianotti was the first female Director-General of CERN, and she led two of the largest CERN experiments in 2012.
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Fabiola Gianotti specifically wants to give women more support when having children.
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Fabiola Gianotti feels that she was never given enough support, and for this reason, never had children, a decision she now regrets.
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Fabiola Gianotti was included among the 'Top 100 most inspirational women' by The Guardian newspaper in 2011, ranked fifth in Time magazine's 'Personality of the Year' in 2012, was the runner-up for Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' in the same year, was included among the 'Top 100 most influential women' by Forbes magazine in 2013, and was considered among the 'Leading Global Thinkers of 2013' by Foreign Policy magazine in 2013.
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Fabiola Gianotti has received honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Uppsala, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne, McGill University, Oslo University, University of Edinburgh, University of Naples Federico II, University of Chicago, University of Savoy, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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Fabiola Gianotti had used Comic Sans in previous presentations, but the controversy was generated due to the importance of the material presented.