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Research Interests
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  1.     Between 1996 and 2009, I collected long oral history interviews with leading figures of the XX century Italian physics, many of which have been prepared for publication and are featured in the volumes Italian Physicists of the present time. Stories of life and thought (edited by  L.B. e M.G. Melchionni – Marsilio, Venice, 2003), and Masters and Pupils in the Italian Physics of the 20th Century (edited by L.B., pp. 650, 20 authors, Pavia 2008).
  2.     I realized a special series of interviews which were in part in the documentary film Bruno Touschek and the Art of Physics (with director Enrico Agapito).
  3.     During 2007-2009 I collaborated with the Physics Department of Pisa University at the realization of an oral history project interviewing Elio Fabri, Italo Mannelli, Carlo Bemporad, Erseo Polacco, Luciano Bertanza, Giorgio Bellettini, Lorenzo Foà, Adalberto Giazotto.
  4.     During the period 2001-2009, I worked at retrieving and depositing in Italian archives personal papers and manuscripts of Italian physicists who operated during the period 1930s to 1970s such as Giovanni Polvani and Carlo Salvetti. I collected in particular books and papers which belonged to Giovanni Gentile jr (son of the well known philosoper Giovanni Gentile), and prepared a complete catalogue depositing all the material in the Archives of the Physics Department of Rome University Sapienza. I collected photographs concerning the history of Italian physics, and identified videos and photographs present in private archives such as Italian Radio and Television, Istituto Luce, ENEA, Frascati National Laboratories.
  5.     Particularly interested in emphasizing the importance of Italian physicists in the scientific culture and history of the XX century, I have always worked in the direction of writing essays on the scientific work of personalities such as Enrico Fermi, Bruno Rossi, Giovanni Gentile Jr, Ettore Majorana, Bruno Pontecorvo, Bruno Touschek.
  6.     The research work underlying the Ph.D. dissertation (Bruno Rossi and Cosmic Rays: from Earth Laboratories to Physics in Space) was focused on a very detailed analysis of Bruno Rossi’s scientific work during the period ranging from the end of the 1920s to the beginning of the 1960s. The research was mainly based on Bruno Rossi Papers preserved in the Archives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as on oral history interviews.
  7.         My work has also dealt with aspects of the history of internationalism of physics during the XXth century. At the moment I am working at Deutsches Museum on a project regarding Arnold Sommerfeld’s correspondence and his relationship with Italian scientists.
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