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My mother was a physicist. I grew up in Cosenza, a city in Calabria in Italy. My mother would bring home textbooks and, as I was a compulsive reader, I would read them all. I remember reading a nuclear physics handbook when I was about nine or ten.

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I would also read my father’s textbooks – he was a doctor – so I could name most of the bones in the human body.

When I left school, I wanted to be a vet. But my mother grew up in the country and when I told her about my study plans, she said “I don’t think you can deliver a cow” – which was probably true.

That was the end of my plans to become a vet really.

I first really got hooked on physics when I went to a public lecture on astronomy. I then decided to enrol in astronomy at the University of Bologna - the oldest university in the world – but after a while I realised I was interested in more than astrophysics.

I wanted to learn more. So, then I went onto study particle physics, before becoming fascinat