Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Bròzolo (

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o, 12 October 1919 –

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, 23 August 2019) was an Italian

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimen ...

Life and career

Graduated in

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University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an impo ...

in 1943 under

Enrico Persico Enrico Persico (August 9, 1900 – June 17, 1969) was an Italian physicist notable for propagating the field of quantum mechanics in Italy. He was a professor at the University of Turin and is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ugo Fano. Care ...

, he started his academic career in 1946 as an assistant professor of

Eligio Perucca Eligio Perucca (28 March 1890 in Potenza – 5 January 1965 in Rome) was an Italian physics instructor and researcher at the University of Turin in Italy in the early decades of the twentieth century. He later served a professorship at the nearby ...

at the Institute of physics of

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, where he remained until 1951, when he won a CNR international scholarship as research fellow at

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. There, in the research group directed by

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, he worked from 1951 to 1953, 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 The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

, where he taught from 1953 to 1955. In that year he got nominated ordinary professor at the

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. He then moved to

Scuola Normale Superiore The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. It was founded in 1810 wi ...

in 1962, teaching until 1989: in this place he was first appointed vice director, from 1962 to 1964 and then director from 1987 to 1991, succeeding

Edoardo Vesentini Edoardo Vesentini (31 May 1928 – 28 March 2020) was an Italian mathematician and politician who introduced the Andreotti–Vesentini theorem. He was awarded the Caccioppoli Prize in 1962. Vasentini was born in Rome , established_title ...

. In 1994, he was nominated Professor Emeritus at the Scuola Normale. With Radicati the modern theoretical school of Pisa was born. 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. From 1959 to 1961, Radicati has been member of the

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(IAS) in

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, then visiting professor at

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(1970), foreign fellow at

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(1971) and visiting professor at the

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques The Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS; English: Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies) is a French research institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics. It is located in Bures-sur-Yvette, just ...

(IHES) for 3 years. He has been visiting professor at

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

(1973) and at

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(1978); also, visiting scientist at

Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base and Japanese internment c ...

(1964) and at

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...

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(1976–77).

Awards

Affiliations

* Member of the

(1959-1961) * Associate of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze italiana ( Accademia dei XL) * Associate of the

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei The Accademia dei Lincei (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but anglicised as the Lincean Academy) is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rom ...

(from 1966)

Decorations and prizes

honoris causa An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad hono ...

degree at the

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

Feltrinelli prize The Feltrinelli Prize (from the Italian "Premio Feltrinelli", also known as "International Feltrinelli Prize" or "Antonio Feltrinelli Prize") is an award for achievement in the arts, music, literature, history, philosophy, medicine, and physical and ...

in physics (1966)

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Radicati, Luigi Arialdo (di Brozolo) University of Turin alumni People associated with CERN Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Recipients of the Legion of Honour Members of the Lincean Academy 1919 births 2019 deaths