The (SIF) or Italian Physical Society was founded in 1897 and is a non-profit organization whose aim is to promote, encourage, protect the study and the progress of
physics
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in
Italy
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and in the world.
It is associated with the journal series ''
Nuovo Cimento''. SIF also publishes the academic journals ''
Quaderni di Storia della Fisica'' and ''
Giornale di Fisica''. Some of the ''Nuovo Cimento'' journals were merged with ''
European Physical Journal
The ''European Physical Journal'' (or ''EPJ'') is a joint publication of EDP Sciences, Springer Science+Business Media, and the Società Italiana di Fisica. It arose in 1998 as a merger and continuation of ''Acta Physica Hungarica'', ''Anales de F ...
'' in 1986 and with ''
Europhysics Letters
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'' in 1999. ''
Il Bolletino della Società Italiana di Fisica'' was published from 1956 to 1984. In 1984, it became ''
Il Nuovo Saggiatore'' ("The New Assayer"). The SIF organizes an annual national congress of study at one of the Italian universities. Its other major initiatives are the management of the "
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and ...
"
International School of Physics
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(an annual
summer school held in
Varenna
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Varenna was founded by local fishermen in 769, and ...
), and the organization of conferences on specific topics.
There are two types of membership in SIF: regular members ("can be effective partners individuals and charities") and honorary members ("may be honorary members persons who have attained an eminent position in the physical science").
Franco Bassani
Giuseppe Franco Bassani (October 29, 1929, Milan – September 25, 2008, Pisa) was an Italian physicist.
Biography
Franco Bassani graduated cum laude in physics from the University of Pavia in November 1952. After two years as a researcher at th ...
(
Scuola Normale di Pisa
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) was President of the SIF until 2007. The current president is
Luisa Cifarelli
Luisa Cifarelli FInstP (born 11 June 1952) is a Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Bologna. She is the Director of the La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento.
Early life and education
Cifarelli was born in Rome in 1952. She ...
(
University of Bologna
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), formerly Vice President.
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External links
Official SIF website* G. Giuliani (1996)
Una breve storia della Società Italiana di Fisica University of Pavia
The University of Pavia ( it, Università degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; la, Alma Ticinensis Universitas) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one ...
.
Physics organizations
Scientific societies based in Italy
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