Ugo Amaldi; born 1934, is an Italian physicist.^[1] He is the son of the first CERN secretary general Edoardo Amaldi. Ugo Amaldi was a professor at the physics department of the University of Milan, having previously worked at Istituto Superiore di Sanità and CERN.^[2] He holds honorary doctorates from University of Lyon, University of Uppsala (1993), University of Valencia^[3] and University of Helsinki.^[4] He is a Fellow of the European Physical Society, a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at Technical University of Munich, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and was awarded the inaugural Bruno Pontecorvo Prize by JINR.^[5] He also founded the Hadron Therapy Project at CERN in 1991.^[6][7]