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4 unusual facts about Edoardo Amaldi


Edoardo Amaldi

Amaldi was born in Carpaneto Piacentino, son of Ugo Amaldi, professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, and Luisa Basini.

For a European unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft, see Edoardo Amaldi ATV.

I ragazzi di via Panisperna

The story is inspired by a real life fact and set in the 1930s when, at the Institute of Physics of Via Panisperna, in Rome, physicist Enrico Fermi managed to involve a group of brilliant young students—Emilio, Bruno, Edoardo and Ettore (respectively, Emilio Segrè, Bruno Pontecorvo, Edoardo Amaldi and Ettore Majorana, all of whom became famous scientists)—forming a working group committed to scientific research who would achieve great discoveries in the field of nuclear physics.

Luigi Broglio

In Italy, the influential physicist Edoardo Amaldi in particular would press for the creation of an indigenous programme.



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