Daniela Bortoletto

Daniela Bortoletto
Daniela Bortoletto speaking in a lecture theatre
Daniela Bortoletto speaking at the UK Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics 2019
NationalityItalian
British
Known forCo-discovering the Higgs boson and the top quark
TitleNicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow in Physics
SpouseIan Shipsey
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Pavia
Alma materSyracuse University
Doctoral advisorSheldon Stone
Academic work
DisciplinePhysics
Sub-disciplineParticle physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford,
Purdue University,
CERN
Main interestsSilicon detector development

Daniela Bortoletto OBE is an Italian-British high energy physicist, head of Particle Physics at the University of Oxford and Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow in Physics at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She works in silicon detector development and was a co-discoverer of both the Higgs boson and the top quark.[1][2]

  1. ^ "D. Bortoletto". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  2. ^ CDF Collaboration; Abe, F.; Akimoto, H.; Akopian, A.; Albrow, M. G.; Amendolia, S. R.; Amidei, D.; Antos, J.; Anway-Wiese, C. (1995-04-03). "Observation of Top Quark Production in $\overline{\mathit{p}}\mathit{p}$ Collisions with the Collider Detector at Fermilab". Physical Review Letters. 74 (14): 2626–2631. arXiv:hep-ex/9503002. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2626. PMID 10057978. S2CID 119451328.