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Guido Tonelli (1950) is a physicist at CERN in Geneva, professor of General Physics at the University of Pisa and INFN associate researcher. He was one of the protagonists in the discovery of the Higgs boson. After working on research projects in Europe and the United States, he worked on the CMS experiment at CERN, heading collaboration during the crucial phases in the hunt for the most elusive particle in the history of physics. His contribution to this important result won him several prizes and international awards.

Marco Paolini is an author, actor and director. From the 1970s he belonged to a number of theatre groups, developing “Albums”, the initial episodes of a long collective biography of Italian history. Well known for his Il racconto del Vajont, he stands out as an author and a performer who tells stories with a profound social impact (I-TIGI. Racconto per Ustica, Parlamento chimico, Il Sergente, Bhopal 2 dic. ’84, U-238, and Miserabili.