Modica – Promoted by the Grimaldi Foundation together with the University of Catania represented by Prof. M. Grazia Grimaldi, professor of Physics and member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation (as an expression of the University of Catania according to the provisions of the founder’s will) and in collaboration with the Lions Club and the Galilei Campailla and Archimede Higher Education Institutes, the engineer’s book will be presented on Friday 21 June at 5.30 pm. Andrea Vaccaro “ORSO MARIO CORBINO The father of the X FACTOR of Physics” published in December 2023.
The author reconstructs the life of the scientist originally from Augusta (1876-1937), framing it in the territorial and historical contexts in which it took place and making him discover the triple dimension of physicist, manager and politician and also provides significant elements to remember Giovan Pietro Grimaldi: Corbino and Grimaldi in fact both graduated with the prof. Damiano Macaluso and became his assistants and supported Pietro Blaserna, a world-famous physicist, in the Institute of Via Panisperna in Rome. The program includes greetings from the lawyer. Salvatore Campanella President Giovan Pietro Grimaldi Foundation, Dr. Alberto Corbino President Cariello Corbino Foundation and Dr. Giuseppe Lissadrello Editor Kerayles, the presentation of the initiative curated by Dr. Clementina Papa “Remembering the same professors then colleagues, in Palermo and Rome ” and below are the interventions of Dr. Carmelo Scandurra “Corbino: scientist, manager and politician”, by the author Eng. Andrea Vaccaro “The boys of Corbino” and Prof. M. Grazia Grimaldi “Physics in Catania at the beginning of the twentieth century”; the readings by prof. Marco Di Natale.
In Modica, at the Grimaldi Foundation in Corso Umberto 106.
