Carlo Rubbia

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1984

Experimental Observation of the Intermediate Vector Bosons W+, W– and Z0

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspong, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

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