Carlos Guido Bollini

Carlos Guido Bollini (15 January 1926 - 12 October 2009) was a physicist from Argentina. He is known for being one of the driving forces behind the development of physics in his country and for developing, together with Juan José Giambiagi, the method of dimensional regularization, which is used nowadays in high-energy physics.

Biography Bollini was born in Lomas de Zamora in 1926.

He came back to the country to become professor at the Physics Department of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 1969 he was one of the 300 researchers that had to quit their positions at the Universidad de Buenos Aires after the Noche de los Bastones Largos (night of the long truncheons). At that time, he moved to the city of La Plata, where he worked at the Physics Department of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

His most cited contribution was published in 1972 in collaboration with Juan José Giambiagi. by a group of Dutch researchers (Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J. G. Veltman). Even though Bollini and Giambagi were the first to submit their work, the manuscript was rejected by Physics Letters B, The Dutch group was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1999, partially for this publication. The work of Giambiagi and Bollini was not cited in the Royal Swedish Academy of Science's advanced-information article. First, in October 1976 he received a letter from the military then in charge of the Universidad de La Plata, saying that they no longer needed his services as professor. Second, in November 1976, he received a similar letter from CONICET. Afterwards, in the middle of one night, he and his family were awakened by the strike of a paramilitary force at their house; they were forced to stay in pijamas in the middle of the street, while their house was searched. After these events, he decided to emigrate from Argentina, initially hired by the Instituto de Física Teórica in São Paulo, Brazil, and afterwards by the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas in Rio do Janeiro.