Paolo de Bernardis
Paolo de Bernardis (born February 1, 1959 in Florence ) is an Italian astrophysicist and cosmologist.
Paolo de Bernardis studied at the La Sapienza University in Rome with a Laureate degree in 1982 and received his doctorate there in 1987. In 1992 he became assistant professor there, in 2001 associate professor and in 2004 he was given a full professorship.
He is mainly concerned with experimental astrophysics and cosmology, and especially with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). On the Italian side, he was the chief scientist of the balloon experiments Boomerang B 98 and B03 from 1998 (in Antarctica) and 2003 respectively. In the BOOMERanG experiment from 1998, acoustic oscillations in the CMB were detected for the first time and the flatness of the universe was demonstrated from the CMB and 2003 the polarization of the CMB. He was also co-leader of the balloon experiments Maxima and Archeops and the High Frequency Experiment in the Planck Space Telescope .
In 2008 he proposed the SAGACE satellite experiment (measurement of the Sunjajew-Seldowitsch effect in galaxies) and he was also a leader in a number of other proposals for satellite experiments such as the 2008 B-Pol. He wrote two popular science books.
In 2001 he received the Feltrinelli Prize and the Targa Piazza Prize of the INAF for Boomerang and in 2006 the Balzan Prize with Andrew E. Lange . For the measurement of the anisotropy of the CMB with Boomerang and Maxima he received the Dan David Prize in 2009 with Andrew Lange and Paul Richards . In 2011 he received the Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize of the European Physical Society and in 2012 the 2011 Van Duzer Prize of the Superconductivity Department of the IEEE with Tarasov, Kuzmin, Edelman and Mashashbde for the development of the superconducting CEB detectors.
He is a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei and he is a member of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze .
Fonts
- Osservare l 'Universo, Bologna: Il Mulino 2010
- Solo un miliardo di anni?, Bologna: Il Mulino 2016
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | De Bernardis, Paolo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian astrophysicist and cosmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |