Adalberto Giazotto

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Adalberto Giazotto (born February 1, 1940 in Genoa ; † November 16, 2017 ) was an Italian physicist and one of the directors of the Virgo gravity wave detector.

Life

Giazotto is the son of the musicologist Remo Giazotto . He went to school in Milan (graduated in 1959) and then studied physics at the University of Rome with the Laurea degree in 1964 (with a dissertation in theoretical physics with Rosario Liotta ). He then worked at the national laboratory in Frascati with Edoardo Amaldi and Gherardo Stoppini on experimental particle physics (electrical production and form factors of mesons). When research there came to a standstill as a result of the 1968 unrest , he went to the laboratories and the synchrotron in Daresburyin England, where he stayed until 1973. He then returned to Italy and worked in Lorenzo Foà's group at CERN . There he was involved in the NA1 and NA7 experiments.

In the 1980s he was one of the initiators of Virgo - the laser interferometer as a detector for gravitational waves. Research in Italy was concentrated in Pisa (the theorist Adriano Di Giacomo was also involved ) and on vibration-free suspension of the mirrors. Around 1987 there was also a collaboration with French physicists around Alain Brillet , who mainly developed the laser-optical side, while the Italians were responsible for the mechanical side. The final approval took place in 1993 and the completion in 2003 (during this time Giazotto and Brillet took turns in the management).

In 2016 Giazotto received the Premio Enrico Fermi and in the same year the Matteucci Medal and the Amaldi Medal . In 2018 he was posthumously awarded the Edison Volta Prize .

He also owned an important mineral collection (increased through his own collecting activities and by buying up important collections), which was exhibited in the Natural History Museum in Florence. Giazotto died on the night of November 15-16, 2017 at the age of 77.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Piero Bianucci: Addio a Giazotto, sfiorato dal Nobel per le onde gravitazionali. In: La Stampa . November 18, 2017, accessed November 18, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Giazotto, Adalberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH 16th November 2017