Francesco Ruggiero (16 August 1957 in Naples, Italy – 18 January 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an Italian physicist.
In 1985, he received his Ph.D. in
accelerator physics
Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators. As such, it can be described as the study of motion, manipulation and observation of relativistic charged particle beams ...
from the
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
The Scuola Normale Superiore (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. Together with the University of Pi ...
.
He participated in the commissioning of
Large Electron–Positron Collider
The Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) was one of the largest particle accelerators ever constructed. It was built at CERN, a multi-national centre for research in nuclear and particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland.
LEP collided electr ...
, contributed to the
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008, in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists, ...
design, became the leader of the accelerator group in
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...
and finally coordinated the CARE-HHH framework devoted to the
LHC upgrade studies (or
Super Large Hadron Collider).
For a long period, he also was associate editor of the prestigious ''
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams'' journal.
A memorial symposium dedicated to Ruggiero took place at CERN on 3 October 2007.
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References
External links
His personal web page at CERN
CERN Bulletin articleAn abstract of his career published on BEAM’07 ProceedingsPresentations made at 2007 CERN symposium, containing comprehensive summaries of Francesco's contributions to sciencePDF presentation of LHC upgrade by Ruggiero
Conference organized by Ruggiero
Scientific publications of Francesco Ruggiero
on INSPIRE-HEP
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1957 births
2007 deaths
People associated with CERN
20th-century Italian physicists
21st-century Italian physicists
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