Pietro Blaserna and the Birth of the Institute of Physics in Rome A Gentleman Scientist at Via Panisperna /

• Main Author: Focaccia, Miriam (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Biographies,
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Italy-History.; Physical measurements.; Measurement .; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Science.; History of Italy.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

This book draws upon a wealth of archival material to present the life and achievements of Pietro Blaserna, a "gentleman scientist" whose greatest legacy is considered to be the Institute of Physics on the Via Panisperna in Rome, of which he was the creator and first director. Both in this...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• 1 A gentleman scientist
• 2 Education and studies
• 3 Rome, prelude
• 4 The Rome Physics Institute. An ideal fulfilled
• 5 Secretary, Vicepresident, President, Director
• 6 Senator
• 7 Final observations
• Acknowledgements
• On the way to steer aerostatic balloons
• The question of the free polar sea
• The harmonium with the mathematically precise scale
• Tuscany and the experimental method
• Illustrations
• Select bibliography
• Index of.