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Edoardo Amaldi (5 September 1908 – 5 December 1989) was an Italian physicist. He coined the term " neutrino " in conversations with Enrico Fermi distinguishing it from the heavier " neutron ". He has been described as "one of the leading nuclear physicists of the twentieth century."
Edoardo Amaldi (1908–1989, Italian), a doctor of Physics at the University of Rome, played a guiding role in the development of Italian nuclear physics and European collaboration.
16 de mar. de 2007 · Edoardo Amaldi, the Italian cosmic-ray physicist, was one of the founding fathers of European space research. He passed away in 1989.
- In Rome with Fermi
- The War Years
- The Years of Reconstruction
- Building European Science
- Research in Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics
- Working For Peace and Arms Control
Amaldi was born in Carpaneto Piacentino, northern Italy, on 5 September 1908. He was the son of Ugo, a distinguished mathe-matician and university professor. Ugo’s academic career led him from Modena to Padua and finally to the University of Rome in 1924, where he joined the outstanding Italian mathematicians Vito Volterra, Tullio Levi-Civita, Guid...
Left alone in Rome with a small group of younger researchers, Amaldi concentrated his research efforts on nuclear fission, working with physicists from the physics institute and the Istituto di Sanità, while Gian Carlo Wick replaced Fermi on the theory side. This work was interrupted when Amaldi was sent for a few months to the African front in 194...
During a trip to the US in 1946, Amaldi was offered a chair at the University of Chicago by none other than Fermi, but he declined because he felt a duty to take care of scientific development in his homeland. During the visit, Amaldi was confronted by the restrictions imposed on results and topics in “his” physics because of real or supposed milit...
Soon after the war, physicists throughout Europe came to realize that only a collaborative effort between several countries could give Europe a competitive role in fundamental research. The proposal for a great European particle accelerator was put forward by Isidor Rabi in 1950, and Amaldi was one of the strongest advocates from the beginning. He ...
In the time left over from academic and administrative duties, as well as acting as an organizer and planner of science, Amaldi stayed in active research, leading groups of young collaborators and moving his interest towards cosmic-ray physics. A high point came in the mid-1950s with work on one of the emulsions exposed to the cosmic radiation duri...
Amaldi’s concern for peace, and his strong feeling for the responsible role that the scientific community should play in this respect, was always a natural complement to his unshakable belief in the open nature of science and the need for international co-operation. By remaining in Italy during the war, he was spared the difficult decision about wh...
Edoardo Amaldi (Carpaneto Piacentino, Italia, 5 de septiembre de 1908 - Roma, Italia, 5 de diciembre de 1989) fue un físico italiano. Fue cofundador y secretario general de la Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear (CERN), de la Agencia Espacial Europea y del Instituto Nacional de Física Nuclear de Italia.
31 de may. de 2012 · Edoardo Amaldi, who had been instrumental in the establishment of CERN four years previously, was with Giorgio Salvini – whose house it was – and Gino Crocco, who was Goddard Professor of Jet Propulsion at Princeton in the US.
Edoardo Amaldi was a leading figure in Italian science in the 20th century, particularly in fundamental experimental physics. He con-tributed to nuclear physics in the 1930s and 1940s, and to cos-mic rays and particle physics in the post-war years, then became a pioneer in the experimental search for gravitational waves in the 1970s.
