Konrad Rubbia, a forestry engineer

Abstract

Konrad Rubbia lived at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Because of his fondness for nature, Rubbia decided for the vocation of a forester or forestry engineer. Working challenges lead him from the home Gorica to other places in the monarchy and outside it (today, some of those places are in Slovenia, other in Croatia and in Italy) where he was engaged mainly in afforesting, and achieved in it great success. Important for the cultivation of trees in Goriško was Rubbia's grandfather Pompeus who was the first to cultivate larch trees. We find among his relatives another important man, Karl Rubbia, Nobel Prizewinner for physics in 1984.