Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Brozolo | |
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| Director of Scuola Normale Superiore | |
| In office 1987–1991 | |
| Preceded by | Edoardo Vesentini |
| Succeeded by | Emilio Picasso |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | University of Turin |
Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Bròzolo (Milano, 12 ottobre 1919 – Pisa, 23 agosto 2019) was an Italian theoretical physicist
Life and career edit
Graduated in Physics at University of Turin in 1943 under Enrico Persico[1], he started his academic career in 1946 as an assistant professor of Eligio Perucca at the Institute of physics of Politecnico di Torino, where he remained until 1951, when he won a CNR international scholarship as research fellow at University of Birmingham. There, in the research group directed by Rudolf Peierls, he worked from 1951 to 1953[2], when he went back to Italy. Still Radicati remained constantly in contact with Peierls, inviting him regularly, at the time, as a guest at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. Back in Italy, since he obtained a chair of theoretical physics, Radicati was nominated Professor at the University of Naples, where he taught from 1953 to 1955. In that year he got nominated ordinary professor at the University of Pisa. He then moved to Scuola Normale Superiore in 1962, teaching until 1989: in this place he was first appointed vice director[3], from 1962 to 1964 and then director from 1987 to 1991, succeeding Edoardo Vesentini.
In 1994, he was nominated Professor Emeritus at the Scuola Normale.
With Radicati the modern theoretical school of Pisa was born[4][5]. Among his numerous students some must be remembered for their important contributions on physics and astrophysics at the Istituto di Fisica of the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale, such as Sergio Rosati, Luigi Ettore Picasso, Adriano Di Giacomo, Pietro Menotti, Franco Strocchi, Francesco Pegoraro, Giampaolo Cicogna e Giuseppe Bertin.
Decorations and prizes edit
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Cavaliere di gran croce dell'Ordine al merito della Repubblica italiana |
| "Su iniziativa del Presidente della Repubblica" — 26 maggio 2004[6] |
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Commendatore dell'ordine al merito della Repubblica italiana |
| — 2 giugno 1988[7] |
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Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della scuola della cultura e dell'arte |
| — 2 giugno 1983[8] |
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Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur |
| — 1994 |
- Laurea honoris causa all'École Normale Supérieure
- Premio Feltrinelli per la fisica (1966)[9]
Notes edit
- ^ "La Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali dell'Università di Torino, 1848-1980". Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Torino.
- ^ "Annuario del Politecnico di Torino per l'Anno Accademico 1952-1953". Vincenzo Bona, 1953.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "Guido Quazza. L'archivio e la biblioteca come autobiografia". FrancoAngeli. 2008.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "Seminario di Astrofisica 1994". Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore,. 1995.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "La Fisica pisana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale (1947-1982)" (PDF). Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa.
- ^ Sito web del Quirinale: dettaglio decorato.
- ^ Sito web del Quirinale: dettaglio decorato.
- ^ Sito web del Quirinale: dettaglio decorato.
- ^ "Premi Feltrinelli 1950-2011". lincei.it.
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