Lucio Rossi
{{short description|Italian physicist}}
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| birth_place = Podenzano, Italy
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| nationality = Italian
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| fields = Superconductivity in Physics
| workplaces = University of Milan, CERN
| alma_mater = University of Milan
| known_for = LHC project
| awards = Rolf Wideroe Prize
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Lucio Rossi (born 24 September 1955) is an Italian physicist who is working in the field of superconductivity. He has been working since 2001 at CERN, on leave from the University of Milan, where he directed the Magnets & Superconductors for the LHC project, worth €1.7 billion, half of the machine's entire budget. He was the project leader of the HL-LHC project.{{Cite news|last=Rossi|first=Lucio|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/2637544|title=Lessons from the accelerator frontier|date=7 September 2018|work=CERN Courier|access-date=24 February 2020|issue=7|volume=58|pages=5–6}}
Biography
Lucio Rossi was born in Podenzano, Italy on 24 September 1955.{{cite news|last1=Rossi|first1=Lucio|title=L'avventura umana della conoscenza incontra la grande tecnologia: il Large Hadron Collider del CERN|url=http://webusers.fis.uniroma3.it/fisincitta/2009/abs_4.htm|agency=La fisica incontra: la citta' ciclo di conferenze divulgative 2009|date= April 2009}}
In 1981 he obtained his 'Laurea' in physics from University of Milan with a thesis on plasma physics.
He was an academic researcher for many years after, interested in applied superconductivity for particle accelerators and in 1992 he became Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Milan.
During the 1990s, Rossi was involved in many experiments such as the Superconducting Cyclotron (SC) currently in Catania, HERA at DESY in Hamburg and Large Hadron Collider at CERN.{{cite journal|last1=Rossi|first1=Lucio|title=The subtle side of superconductivity|journal=CERN Courier|date=September 2010|volume=50|issue=7|pages=27–30|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1734553}} His main activities were the design and construction of coils, solenoids, superconductors and prototypes for magnets.{{cite web |url=https://euresis.org/symposia/speakers/#rossi |title=Euresis>Symposia>Speakers|publisher=Euresis |access-date=25 February 2020}}
From 2001-2011 he led the Magnet Superconductor and Cryostat Group{{cite magazine |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |date=10 March 2006 |title=Big bang |magazine=Forbes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBC8AAAAIAAJ|publisher=Forbes Incorporated}} (MSC) for the LHC project. Since 2011 he has been leader of the High Luminosity for LHC.{{cite journal|last1=Kahle|first1=Kate|last2=Rossi|first2=Lucio|title=Designs on higher luminosity|journal=CERN Courier|date=March 2012|volume=52|issue=2|pages=19–20|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1734764}}{{cite news|last1=Rossi|first1=Lucio|title=The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Higgs boson and Superconductivity for next generation accelerators at CERN|url=http://www.dei.unibo.it/it/risorse/files/cv-prof.-lucio-rossi|agency=Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Energia elettrica e dell'Informazione "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI|access-date=2015-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402140555/http://www.dei.unibo.it/it/risorse/files/cv-prof.-lucio-rossi|archive-date=2015-04-02|url-status=dead}} In 2011 at the international symposium on subnuclear physics held in Vatican City, he gave a talk The Large Hadron Collider of CERN and the Roadmap Toward Higher Performance.{{cite book|editor=Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo|editor-link=Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo|editor2=Zichichi, Antonino|editor-link2=Antonino Zichichi|chapter=The Large Hadron Collider of CERN and the Roadmap Toward Higher Performance by Lucio Rossi|pages=517–530|title=Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future; Proceedings of the International Symposium, held 30 October - 2 November 2011, held in Vatican City|series=Scripta Varia, volume 119|publisher=Pontifical Academy of Sciences|year=2014|chapter-url=https://www.pas.va/content/dam/casinapioiv/pas/pdf-volumi/scripta-varia/sv119/sv119-rossi.pdf}}
Since 1985 Rossi is one of the founders of "Euresis", a Milan-based association for the promotion of scientific culture established in Milan.
From October 2020 he resumed active service as full professor at the Physics Department of the University of Milan.
Awards
- 2007: IEEE Council of Superconductivity Award
- 2013: IEEE fellow award{{cite journal|title=Faces and places: Lucio Rossi is named 2013 IEEE fellow|journal=CERN Courier|date=January 2013|volume=53|issue=1|page=37|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1734887|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102213527/https://cds.cern.ch/record/1734887|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 2, 2023}}
- 2020: Rolf Widerøe Prize{{Cite web|title=EPS announces 2020 accelerator awards|url=https://cerncourier.com/a/eps-announces-2020-accelerator-awards/|date=2020-05-08|website=CERN Courier|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-22}}
- 2023: "Enrico Fermi" Prize
See also
References
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External links
- [http://home.web.cern.ch/ CERN official website]
- [https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/L.Rossi.2 Scientific publications of Lucio Rossi] on INSPIRE-HEP
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