Giorgio Dal Piaz

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Giorgio Dal Piaz (born March 29, 1872 in Feltre , † April 20, 1962 in Padua ) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist .

Piaz was originally a pharmacist and studied natural sciences in Padua with the Laurea degree in 1897 and his habilitation (Libera docenza) in 1902. He was then assistant to Giovanni Omboni in Padua and his successor from 1908 (before he won a competition for a professorship in Catania) .

He studied the tectonics of the Alpi Feltrine in the Dolomites and studied Jurassic fossils in the area around Verona , Trentino and Vicenza . He also examined mammalian fossils (and those of toothed whales) from the Miocene near Belluno . He headed the geological survey in the Triveneto area . He also dealt with hydrogeology , among other things he investigated (from the end of the 1920s) the suitability of the subsoil at the Vajont dam , which gained notoriety after being flooded after a landslide in 1963 with over 2,000 deaths. His role in this was controversial.

In 1914 and 1920 he was President of the Italian Geological Society. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei , the Accademia dei XL , the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (since 1918) and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences .

In 1925 he signed Benedetto Croce's anti-fascist manifesto .

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  1. ^ Obituary in Atti e memorie, Accademia patavina di scienze, lettere ed arti, Volume 85, 1962. Died on April 22nd according to Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.
  2. ↑ Pamela Calufetti, Vajont: polemica sul rifugio Dal Piaz, richiesto un cambio nome, Montagna TV, March 9, 2013
  3. ^ Historical membership list of the academy .


personal data
SURNAME Dal Piaz, Giorgio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Feltre
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1962
Place of death Padua