Carlo Rubbia was born in Italy and carried out his first serious scientific experiments as a young boy, using communication equipment abandoned at the end of World War II. Since his postdoctoral year at Columbia University in 1958 and 1959, Rubbia has been particularly interested in the study of elementary particles, and through his affiliations with the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) he has had some of the most powerful particle accelerators in the world available for his research. Since the late 1960s, Rubbia's primary research has involved the search for a trio of particles known as the W+, W-, and Z0 bosons, which were postulated in the 1960s as the force particles through which the electroweak force exerts its influence. By 1982, Rubbia and his colleagues at CERN had designed the equipment needed to carry out this search and had successfully located the first W particles. For this accomplishment...