Pietro Blasena

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Pietro Blasena (born February 22, 1836 in Fiumicello near Aquileja , † February 26, 1918 in Rome ) was an Italian physicist and mathematician.

Pietro Blasena

Life

His parents were the hydraulic engineers Matteo Blasena and Caterina, née. Lockpick. He studied in Vienna and was there from 1856 to 1859 assistant at the physical institute. He was friends here with Viktor von Lang . In 1860/61 he was in Paris with Henri Victor Regnault . In 1862 he was incaricato of physics at the Istituto Superiore in Florence and in the following year full professor of experimental physics and director of the physical institute in Palermo . Here also was Adolf Lieben operates. In 1872 he went to the University of Rome , where he became director of the Physics Institute.

In favor of organizational and administrative activities that the institute management required, Blasera largely renounced research. He made important contributions to the reorganization of physics studies, where he introduced internships for the beginning semester, for example, and to the modern equipment of the Physics Institute in Via Panisperna . He was also involved in science policy and was a founding member of the Società degli Spettroscopisti Italiani , the Istituto per la Meteorologia e la Geodinamica and the Società italiana di fisica .

He was also President of the Consiglio di Meteorologia from 1879 and General Secretary of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures from 1901 .

Blasera received numerous honors. In 1873 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei , later its Vice-President (1879) and President (1904). In 1890 he was appointed Senator of the Kingdom and in 1904 Vice President of the Senate. He was holder of the Ordine Civile di Savoia and he was awarded numerous honorary doctorates, among others from the universities of Tübingen , Königsberg and Erlangen . From 1910 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

Fonts

  • Sulla compressibilità dell'acido carbonico e dell'aria atmosferica ; Palermo, 1865
  • Sullo sviluppo e la durata delle correnti d'induzione e delle estracorrenti ; Palermo, 1870

Web links

  • M. Grazia Ianniello: Pietro Blasena (1836-1918). In: Museo del Dipartimento di Fisica. Università "La Sapienza" Roma, 1998, archived from the original on December 15, 2000 (Italian).;

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paths of Physics: Anthology of Italian Physics (1855-1944): Blasena Pietro (1836-1918)
  2. ↑ a b c d M. Grazia Ianniello: Pietro Blasena (1836-1918). In: Museo del Dipartimento di Fisica. Università "La Sapienza" Roma, 1998, archived from the original on December 15, 2000 (Italian).;
  3. ^ Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Sixième Conferénce Générale de Poids et Mesures . Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1921, p. 14 (French, bipm.org [PDF; accessed April 23, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Carmelo Cataldi: L'Ordine Civile di Savoia e la macroscopica svista nella legge 178/51 . Atti del Convegno tenutosi a Fossano il 16 November 2014. In: La legislazione italiana e il patrimonio araldico cavalleresco di Casa Savoia . Bimbato & Partners (Italian).
  5. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 21, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Blasera, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Fiumicello near Aquileja
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1918
Place of death Rome