Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Italian research institute

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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Location	Rome , Italy
Website	www.infn.it

The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN; "National Institute for Nuclear Physics") is the coordinating institution for nuclear, particle, theoretical and astroparticle physics in Italy.

History

INFN was founded on 8 August 1951, to further the nuclear physics research tradition initiated by Enrico Fermi in Rome, in the 1930s. The INFN collaborates with CERN, Fermilab and various other laboratories in the world. In recent years it has provided important contributions to grid computing.

During the latter half of the 1950s, the INFN designed and constructed the first Italian electron accelerator—the electron synchrotron developed in Frascati. In the early 1960s, it also constructed in Frascati the first ever electron-positron collider (ADA - Anello Di Accumulazione), under the scientific leadership of Bruno Touschek.^[1] In 1968, Frascati began operating ADONE (big AdA), which was the first high-energy particle collider, having a beam energy of 1.5 GeV.^[2]^[3] During the same period, the INFN began to participate in research into the construction and use of ever-more powerful accelerators being conducted at CERN.

The INFN has Sezioni (Divisions) in most major Italian universities and four national laboratories. It has personnel of its own, but it is mostly the main funding agency for high-energy physics in Italy. University personnel can be affiliated with INFN and receive from it research grants.

Laboratories

Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, situated near the Gran Sasso mountain
Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, in Legnaro
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, in Frascati
Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, in Catania

Divisions

Bari
Bologna
Bologna - CNAF
Cagliari
Catania
Ferrara
Firenze
Firenze - GGI
Genova
Lecce
Milano
Milano - Bicocca
Napoli
Padova
Pavia
Perugia
Pisa
Roma
Roma - II
Roma - III
Torino
Trento - TIFPA
Trieste

Presidents

1954-1959 Gilberto Bernardini (it)
1960-1965 Edoardo Amaldi
1966-1970 Giorgio Salvini
1970-1975 Claudio Villi (it)
1976-1977 Alberto Gigli Berzolari
1977-1983 Antonino Zichichi
1983-1992 Nicola Cabibbo
1993-1998 Luciano Maiani
1998-2004 Enzo Iarocci
2004–2011 Roberto Petronzio
2011–2019 Fernando Ferroni
2019–current Antonio Zoccoli

References

^ ADA
^ Hoddeson, Lillian; Brown, Laurie; Riordan, Michael; Dresden, Max (1997). The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s. Cambridge University Press. pp. 25–26. ISBN 0-521-57816-7.
^ Preger, M.; Murtas, F. (1997-03-20). "ADONE ( 1969-1993 )". Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati. Retrieved 2008-09-16.