Edoardo Amaldi (5 September1908 - 5 December1989) was an Italian physicist. September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This interesting book was published in the EdoardoAmaldi Foundation Series and, as Ugo Amaldi, Edoardo's son, writes in the preface, "offers, by reading Amaldi's own words, the occasion to delve into his way of viewing the people he liked and the events which he had participated in".
Amaldi describes from his own experience the exciting developments of the time, with details of the experimental arrangements and, for example, the correspondence with Rutherford.
Amaldi gives a full account of their scientific achievements, but also offers warm words about the personal relations, and reports many interesting and amusing stories (among them 11 pages of cartoons drawn by Touscheck) about their careers.
EdoardoAmaldi, son of Laura Basini and Ugo Amaldi, was born in Carpineto Piacentino (Piacenza) on 5 September 1908.
Amaldi himself was thinking of going to the USA, where he would have had no difficulty in finding a university chair in physics, but he decided to remain in Italy.
Amaldi died unexpectedly on 5 December 1989, still in full activity, while he was president of the Accademia dei Lincei, of which he had been a member since 1948.
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