Background
Zichichi, Antonino was born on October 15, 1929 in Trapani, Italy. Son of Salvatore and Maria (Virgilio) Zichichi.
Zichichi, Antonino was born on October 15, 1929 in Trapani, Italy. Son of Salvatore and Maria (Virgilio) Zichichi.
Doctor Physics, University Palermo (Italy), 1953. Doctor Physics (honorary), Beijing University, 1990. Doctor Physics (honorary), Malta University, 1993.
Doctor Physics (honorary), University Buenos Aires, 1994. Doctor Physics (honorary), Bucharest University, 1995. Doctor Physics (honorary), Arizona University, 1998.
Director Postgraduate School of Physics, University of Bologna, now Professor, of Advanced Physics (on leave of absence). Former Director Bologna Section, National Institute for Nuclear Physics. Former President European Physical Society, Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
Senior Physicist CERN, Geneva, Leader CERN LAA Project. Director ELOISATRON Project of INFN. Author Gran Sasso Project, President Gran Sasso Institute Committee, Italian Government Commission, on Nuclear Risk, World Federation Scientists, World Laboratory, Galileo Galilei Foundation, Science for Peace Institute Committee, State Committee Industrial Redevelopment.
Director Ettore Majorana Interdisciplinary' Centre for Scientific Culture.
President Science for Peace International Committee, president European Physical Society, 1977-1979. Member of Georgian Academy of Sciences (foreign), Ukranian Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Sciences Rome, National Institute Nuclear Physics (president 1979-1985), World Federation Scientists since 1998.
Married Maria Ludovica Bernardini, December 1958. Children; Cosimo, Fabrizio, Lorenzo.