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Should the name lose the dash? He was Italian, and Italian double names are joined or completely disjoint. --141.108.14.171 (talk) 13:41, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I believe the name is better without the hyphen. One can find plenty of references to "Gian-Carlo" and references to "Gian Carlo". Most of the papers by him do not indicate he used a hyphen, and I noted the biography by Eduardo Amaldi "Gian Carlo Wick during the 1930s" is without the hyphen (20th Century Physics: Essays and Recollections : a Selection of Historical ...). Amaldi and Wick were co-workers so Amaldi would know. I suspect the hyphen was to indicate that his first name was "Gian Carlo" rather than "Gian", as some might read it. Bdushaw (talk) 13:58, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]