Alfonso Sella
Alfonso Sella (born September 25, 1865 in Biella , † November 25, 1907 in Rome ) was an Italian physicist.
Sella, the son of Quintino Sella , studied with Woldemar Voigt in Göttingen . From 1893 he was professor of experimental physics at the University of Rome . He dealt with elasticity, radioactivity (he was one of the first scientists in Italy to study radium and its radiation), acoustics and crystallography.
Together with Vito Volterra, he was one of the founders of the Società Italiana per il Progresso delle Scienze and was its director.
Individual evidence
- ↑ short biography in Mazliak, Tazzioli Mathematicians at war. Volterra and his french colleages in world war I , Springer 2009, p. 91
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| SURNAME | Sella, Alfonso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biella |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1907 |
| Place of death | Rome |