Carlo Rubbia
Interview
Interview with the 1984 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Carlo Rubbia, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.
Carlo Rubbia talks about teamwork and collective enterprises in physics, research at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) (10:50), particularly the Large Hadron Collider (12:47), how curiosity drives scientific achievements and encourages the general public’s interest in science (14:48), and finally, the energy crisis (20:58) and his views on nuclear (24:00) and solar (30:40) power.
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