Valentino Cerruti

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Valentino Francesco Cerruti (born February 14, 1850 in Crocemosso near Biellese , † August 20, 1909 ibid) was an Italian physicist and politician.

Life

Cerruti received his Laureate degree in engineering from the Turin Polytechnic in 1873 . He then briefly taught the children of Quintino Sella in Rome before teaching as an assistant at the Engineering School of the University of Rome, where he became professor of rational mechanics after a competition in 1877. He was rector from 1888 to 1892 and from 1900 to 1903.

In 1883/84 he was commissioner for the Alessandrina University Library in Rome and he also built the central library of the engineering faculty of the University of Rome. He was also temporarily Secretary General of the Ministry of Education and in the highest Italian Council for Education.

He dealt with elasticity theory.

He was a Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy and Commander of the Order of St. Maurizio and Lazzaro . From 1901 he was senator of the Kingdom of Italy .

He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . On August 23, 1884 ( matriculation number 2481 ) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

literature

  • Tullio Levi Civita, obituary in Rend. Lincei, Vol. 182, 1909, pp. 565-575
  • G. Lauricella, obituary in Giorn. Mat. Battaglini, Vol. 50, 1912, pp. 329-336
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 223 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Valentino Francesco Cerruti at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Cerruti, Valentino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cerruti, Valentino Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Crocemosso
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1909
Place of death Crocemosso