Giorgio Salvini
{{Short description|Italian physicist and politician}}
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Giorgio Salvini (24 April 1920 – 8 April 2015) was an Italian physicist and politician.
Life
Born in Milan, in 1953 Salvini was responsible for the construction of the first Italian circular particle accelerator, the electron synchrotron of Frascati ("elettrosincrotrone di Frascati").{{cite news|last1=Stefano Rizzato|title=È morto Giorgio Salvini, fisico ed ex ministro|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2015/04/08/italia/cronache/morto-giorgio-salvini-fisico-ed-ex-ministro-rhc0ao7AzhfuCTcZGO4A5M/pagina.html|accessdate=7 December 2015|work=La Stampa|date=8 April 2015}} Between 1966 and 1970 he was president of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). Salvini took part in the CERN experiment that led to the discovery of the W and Z bosons.{{Cite web|url=https://home.infn.it/en/media-outreach/news/1596-goodbye-to-giorgio-salvini-father-of-the-frascati-laboratories-and-of-the-electron-synchrotron|title=Goodbye to Giorgio Salvini, father of the Frascati Laboratories and of the Electron Synchrotron|last=|first=|date=8 April 2015|website=National Institute for Nuclear Physics|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621110602/https://home.infn.it/en/media-outreach/news/1596-goodbye-to-giorgio-salvini-father-of-the-frascati-laboratories-and-of-the-electron-synchrotron|archive-date=2018-06-21|access-date=2 March 2020}}
He served as president of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1990 to 1994.
He was Minister of University, Scientific Research and Technology in the Dini 1995-1996 cabinet.
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|title = Annuario dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2016 – CDXIII dalla Sua Fondazione
|place = Roma
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|url = http://www.lincei.it/files/doc/ANL_Annuario_2016..pdf
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|archive-date = 2016-09-23
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}}. The "Yearbook" of the renowned Italian scientific institution, including an historical sketch of its history, the list of all past and present members as well as a wealth of information about its academic and scientific activities.
- {{Citation
|last = Maiani
|first = Luciano
|author-link = Luciano Maiani
|title = Ricordo di Giorgio Salvini
|trans-title=Recollection of Giorgio Salvini
|place = Roma
|journal = Rendiconti della Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze Detta dei XL. Memorie di Matematica e Applicazioni, Serie V
|volume = XXXIX
|language=Italian
|issue = I
|origyear = 133o
|year = 2015
|pages = 39–40
|url =http://www.accademiaxl.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Maiani-39-40.pdf
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- {{Citation
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|contribution =Giorgio Salvini
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|title=Biografie e bibliografie degli Accademici Lincei
|trans-title =Biographies and bibliographies of the Lincean Academicians
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|year =1976
|pages =583–587
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}}. The biographical and bibliographical entry, including a list of publications and updated up to 1976, on Giorgio Salvini, published under the auspices of the Accademia dei Lincei in a book collecting many profiles of its living members up to 1976.
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Category:Scientists from Milan
Category:Members of the Lincean Academy
Category:20th-century Italian physicists