Guido Altarelli

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Guido Altarelli (born July 12, 1941 in Rome) is an Italian theoretical physicist at the Universita' di Roma Tre and CERN. His best known contribution, obtained with Giorgio Parisi in 1977, is the derivation of the QCD evolution equations for parton densities, known as the Altarelli- Parisi or DGLAP equations.[1]

He graduated in Physics from Rome University in 1963 with Raoul Gatto whom he followed to the University of Florence (1965–68). He held positions at New York University (1968–69), the Rockefeller University (New York, 1969–70), the University “La Sapienza” in Rome (1970–92), l’Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (76-77, 81) and Boston University (85-86). He was Director of the Rome Section of the INFN (1985–87). In 1987-2006 he was a Senior Staff Physicist at the Theory Division of CERN, 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.

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

References

  1. ↑ G. Altarelli and G. Parisi (1977). "Asymptotic Freedom in Parton Language". Nuclear Physics B126 (2): 298–318. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(77)90384-4. 


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