Giovan Pietro Grimaldi

Giovan Pietro Grimaldi

Giovan Pietro Grimaldi di Calamezzana (born October 28, 1860 in Modica , † September 1, 1918 ibid) was an Italian physicist and academic.

life and work

Grimaldi was the son of the lawyer Enrico Grimaldi di Calamezzana and his wife Antonia Rizzone Tedeschi. He had three siblings, Clemente Grimaldi , a well-known agronomist, and his sisters Grazietta and Teresa. From 1874 he attended the Royal Technical Institute Archimedes in Modica, which he graduated in 1878 with excellent grades. He stayed at the institute until 1880, where he worked as an assistant for physics. That year Grimaldi enrolled at the Royal University of Catania, where he studied physics. He completed his studies in 1885 with a thesis on the expansion of liquids at different pressures. He remained until 1886 employee of his academic teacher Damiano Macaluso , whom he followed to the University of Palermo.

In 1888 he became assistant to Pietro Blasena at the Institute of Physics at the University of Rome . Four years later he became professor of physics at the University of Cagliari ; in the same year, however, he took over the chair of experimental physics at the University of Parma , only to return to Catania the following year to take over the chair of Adolfo Bartoli . From 1905 to 1908 he was rector of the University of Catania. That year he resigned from university because of health problems.

He died at the age of 57. He bequeathed his fortune to a foundation.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernesto Drago: In memoria di Giovan Pietro Grimaldi. In: Il Nuovo Cimento. 17, 1919, pp. 5-18, doi : 10.1007 / BF02959783 .