Società Italiana per il Progresso delle Scienze
The Società Italiana per il Progresso delle Scienze (SIPS) (“Italian Society for the Advancement of Science”), founded in Pisa in 1839, is one of the oldest scientific societies in Italy . As a non-profit organization , it promotes general interest in the sciences and the exchange between scientists from different disciplines, in particular through interdisciplinary congresses, conferences, seminars and publications. Carlo Bernardini is the chairman.
Before the establishment of many Italian professional societies , the SIPS served as an association of scientists from various disciplines, including physicists and chemists. After a period of inactivity towards the end of the 19th century, the SIPS was re-established in Milan in 1906 by Vito Volterra and Alfonso Sella . In 1937 Guglielmo Marconi enabled the SIPS to settle at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome. The society was divided into three classes with different scientific focuses.
Its members included eminent Italian scientists, including the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi , the chemists Francesco Filippuzzi and Giacomo Luigi Ciamician , the medicine Nobel Prize winners Camillo Golgi and Daniel Bovet .
The most important publications include: Un secolo di progresso scientifico italiano ( 1839-1939 , 7 volumes) , the Indice generale storico-cronologico alfabetico e analitico lavori, contributi e quadri direttivi (1839-2005) , the Annuario della SIPS and the specialist journal Scienza e Tecnica .