Elena Aprile
Elena Aprile was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on March 12th, 1954 and is the Italian Experimental Particle Physicist. At the age of 70, Elena Aprile biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Aprile studied physics at the University of Naples and completed her masters thesis at CERN under the supervision of Professor Carlo Rubbia. After receiving her Laurea degree in 1978, she enrolled at the University of Geneva, from which she received her Ph.D. in physics in 1982. She moved to Harvard University in 1983 as a postdoctoral researcher in Carlo Rubbia's group. Aprile joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1986, attaining her full professorship in 2001. From 2003 to 2009, Aprile served as co-director of the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory.
- Aprile received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1991 and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award in 1999. She has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2000.
- In 2005 she received the medal of Ufficiale della Republica Italiana from the Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
- Asteroid 268686 Elenaaprile, discovered by Italian amateur astronomer Silvano Casulli in 2006, was named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 November 2017 (M.P.C. 107121).
- In 2019 she received the Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society.
- In 2020 she was selected as Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor of Physics at UC San Diego, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- In 2021 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences