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Title The scientific legacy of Beppo Occhialini : formative years and the return to Italy in 1950 / Leonardo Gariboldi, Massimo Gervasi, Giorgio Sironi, Aldo Treves, Pasquale Tucci, editors
Edition Second edition
Published Cham : Springer, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 257 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- chapter 1. Memoirs -- chapter 2. Gariboldi_Tucci -- chapter 3. Occhialini_Tucci -- chapter 4. Dilworth -- chapter 5. Autobiography -- chapter 6. Bonetti_Mazzoni -- chapter 7. Bustsamante -- chapter 8. Ribeiro -- chapter 9. Gariboldi -- chapter 10. Lock_Gariboldi -- chapter 11. Bonetti_Gariboldi -- chapter 12. LeviSetti -- chapter 13. Stiller -- chapter 14. LeviSetti -- chapter 15. Ratti -- chapter 16. Labeyrie -- chapter 17. Publication.
Summary The thirtieth anniversary of the death of Beppo Occhialini, the cosmic-ray physicist associated among other things to the fundamental discoveries of the electron-positron pairs and of the pion thanks to his contributions to the development of the controlled cloud chamber and of new nuclear emulsions, is the occasion to publish his memoirs on the main events of his scientific life, which he dictated shortly before his death. This second edition of The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini takes us by the hand to appreciate the admiration if not the veneration he had for Patrick Blackett, the ironic rudeness of Lord Rutherford, or the troubled relationship with Cecil Powell. A particularly thorny aspect concerns the role played by some physicists during the Second World War and the way Occhialini elaborated the complex personal situations experienced by each of them. Occhialini's memoirs are enriched by his short autobiography originally published as an encyclopedia entry in the 1970s. A selection of relevant historical studies and personal reminiscences mainly concerning his scientific activity before his coming to Milan is reproposed, together with some personal notes from friends and colleagues
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 14, 2023)
Subject Occhialini, Giuseppe, 1907-1993.
Physicists -- Italy -- Biography
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- History
Astrophysics -- History -- 20th century
Form Electronic book
Author Gariboldi, Leonardo, editor
Gervasi, Massimo, editor.
Sironi, Giorgio, editor
Treves, Aldo, editor.
Tucci, Pasquale, editor.
ISBN 9783031370342
3031370341
Other Titles Formative years and the return to Italy in 1950