Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Brozolo
Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Brozolo (born October 12, 1919 in Milan ; † August 23, 2019 in Pisa ; mostly cited as Luigi Radicati ) was an Italian physicist .
Radicati di Brozolo studied physics at the University of Turin with a Laureate degree in 1943 under Enrico Persico . He then worked as an assistant at the Polytechnic in Turin and from 1951 to 1953 with Rudolf Peierls in Birmingham. After winning a competition, he was professor of theoretical physics in Naples from 1953 and professor at the University of Pisa from 1955 . In 1962 he moved to the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. From 1961 to 1964 he was deputy director there and from 1987 to 1991 director. In 1994 he retired.
From 1959 to 1961 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study , 1970 visiting professor at Columbia University and 1971 Foreign Fellow at Oxford University (All Souls College). He was visiting professor at IHES in 1973 (and on its scientific advice), at the University of Michigan and in 1978 at the University of Texas at Austin , in 1964 as a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and in 1976/77 at CERN .
He dealt with elementary particle physics and the role of different Lie groups in it ( SU (4), SU (3), SU (6), SU (3) x SU (3), associated current algebras and summation rules and predictions, e.g. of magnetic moments), quantum field theory , Nuclear physics (selection rules for electrical dipole transitions) and later symmetry breaks in equilibrium figures in astrophysics and detection of gravitational waves. Radicati worked with Bruno Touschek , Nicola Cabibbo , Emilio Picasso , Abraham Pais Jun John Sakurai , Feza Gürsey , Mirza Abdul Baqi Bég and Louis Michel , among others . With Gürsey, he proposed a theory of hadrons with SU (6) symmetry in the quark model (expansion to include the spin) in 1964 and in the 1970s with Louis Michel with the octet representation of SU (3) with applications to quarks.
From 1982 he was in the Accademia dei Lincei and he was in the Accademia dei XL , member of the Academy of Sciences in Naples and in the Istituto Lombardo. In 1966 he received the Feltrinelli Prize for Physics. He became Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Republic of Italy in 2004 and was a Knight of the Legion of Honor .
His son Luca is a law professor in Milan.
Web links
- Entry at Treccani
- Biography at the Scuola Normale Superiore , web archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gürsey, Radicati, Spin and Unitary Spin Independence of Strong Interactions, Physical Review Letters, Volume 13, 1964, pp. 173-175
- ↑ Gürsey, Pais, Radicati, Spin and Unitary Spin Independence of Strong Interactions, Physical Review Letters, Volume 13, 1964, pp. 299-301
- ↑ Michel, Radicati, Properties of the breaking of hadronic internal symmetry, Annals of Physics, Volume 66, 1971, pp. 758-783
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Radicati di Brozolo, Luigi Arialdo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Radicati, Luigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23 August 2019 |
| Place of death | Pisa |