Thursday, 23 April 2020
Teresa Rodrigo, physicist who participated in the discovery of the Higgs boson, dies at the age of 63
She was a professor at the University of Cantabria and director of the Institute of Physics of Cantabria. She led one of the teams of the CMS experiment of the large hadron collider at CERN.
Particle physics expert Teresa Rodrigo Anoro has died this Tuesday at the age of 63. Until a few months ago, she was the director of the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA), a mixed research centre of the University of Cantabria and CSIC, in which she was Head of the High Energy Physics and Instrumentation Group.
Teresa Rodrigo (Lleida, 1956) focused her career on experimental physics of elementary particles. She was the first Spanish woman to work on cutting-edge experiments in this field, especially at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). There, she worked with the Large Hadron Collider and led a group of more than 30 researchers from the University of Cantabria and IFCA that participated in the discovery of the Higgs boson. At the ICN2, we regret her loss and want to remember her by highlighting her figure as a relevant woman in science.
Learn more about Teresa Rodrigo in the news by SINC (in Spanish).