Guido Tonelli

Guido Tonelli (born 1950) is an Italian particle physicist who was involved with the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.

He received his high school diploma in 1969 at the liceo classico Lorenzo Costa of La Spezia with a vote of 60/60.

Since the beginning of the '90 his activity is mainly devoted to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), experiment proposed for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, (Switzerland).

He participates in CMS since the conceptual design contributing with the original idea of a central tracker fully based on semiconductor devices.

[3] On 13 December 2011 together with Fabiola Gianotti, ATLAS Spokesperson, he presented in a special seminar at CERN the first evidence of the presence of the Higgs boson around a mass of 125 GeV/c2.