The President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, has recently appointed four new Senators for life, whose “outstanding cultural achievements” in the fields of science and art have largely contributed to Italy’s renown at global level.
Pritzker Architecture Award winner, Renzo Piano, has been selected by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The famed architect born in Genoa has designed extraordinary buildings even in the USA: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2003); the Renzo Piano Tower I and II in San Francisco (2006); the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco (2008), completed after ten years and featuring the most sustainable building materials. In 2012 he was also selected – together with his colleague Zoltan Pali – by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to design the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
After graduating with a final dissertation on cosmic rays, particle physicist Carlo Rubbia attended the Columbia University where he performed experiments on the decay and nuclear capture of muons, obtaining a PhD in physics.
Since 1970 he worked as a Professor at Harvard University for 18 years, running a number of tests relating to weak interactions that earned him the Nobel Prize. His current researches are focused on future energy supplies and on the development of new technologies to create renewable energy sources.
Music conductor Claudio Abbado made his debut in 1960 at La Scala in Milan, his native city. In his career he has directed the Vienna State Opera, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the EU Youth Orchestra, receiving many international awards. In the US he has worked for the New York Philharmonic, and he also was the main guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1982 to 1986.
Dr. Elena Cattaneo, Pharmacy graduate and PhD in Biotechnology, has continued her studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is currently working on stem cells and primordial forms of the brain.
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