Giancarlo Ghirardi

Giancarlo Ghirardi (28 October 1935 – 1 June 2018)[1][2] was an Italian physicist and emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Trieste.He is well known for the Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber theory (GRW), which he proposed in 1985 together with Alberto Rimini and Tullio Weber,[3][4] and for his contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics.He independently rederived, in a referee report to Foundations of Physics, the no-cloning theorem, before the works by William Wootters and Wojciech H. Zurek[5] and by Dennis Dieks[6] in 1982, but after the actual first derivation by James L. Park[7] in 1970.His research interests related to a variety of topics of theoretical physics, but focused beginning in 1983 mainly on the foundations of quantum mechanics.In 2017, he was awarded the Spirit of Salam prize for his extraordinary contributions to the development of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics during its budding years, both at its scientific and organizational fronts.
Grado, ItalyUniversity of MilanGhirardi–Rimini–Weber theoryDynamical reductionQuantum Zeno effectQuantum mechanicsInternational School for Advanced StudiesUniversity of Triestephysicistemeritus professortheoretical physicsfoundationsno-cloning theoremWilliam WoottersWojciech H. ZurekDennis DieksFoundations of PhysicsStudies in History and Philosophy of ScienceTriesteMaria Teresa Bassa PoropatInternational Centre for Theoretical PhysicsContinuous spontaneous localization modelBibcodeNaturePhysics Letters ACiteSeerXQuantaGoogle Scholar