XL National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy

Session

Storie: nel '900 in giro per il mondo

6

8 Sept 2020, 15:00

Conveners

Storie: nel '900 in giro per il mondo

• Roberto Lalli

27. Beppo Occhialini in Brazil between Physics and Politics

Dr Gariboldi, Leonardo (Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli")

08/09/2020, 15:00

sisfa 2020

The aim of this work is to offer an analysis of the documents kept in Italian and Brazilian archives on Occhialini’s activity in Brazil in the late 1930’s. Occhialini went to São Paulo to help Gleb Wataghin in creating a new Physics team. Due to Brazil’s geomagnetic location and the scarcity of funds, they chose cosmic ray physics as the main subject of research. We shall analyse Occhialini’s...

8. Tales from Dubna’s oakwood: Bogoliubov, Pontecorvo, and the JINR seminars

Mr Furlan, Stefano (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

08/09/2020, 15:25

sisfa 2020

If much ink has been spilt on Bruno Pontecorvo’s emigration to the USSR (1950), on the other hand, much less has been said about the scientific milieu in which he found himself: the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna. In this paper, we begin to fill this gap by focusing on the distinguished scientists with whom Pontecorvo interacted beyond direct collaborations; paying...

28. Thinking Big. How large-scale detectors set the stage for the emergence of astro-particle physics

Bonolis, Luisa (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

08/09/2020, 15:50

sisfa 2020

The evolution of the astrophysical dimension of cosmic-ray studies as a bridge between high-energy particle physics and experimental astrophysics has not been explored as it deserves, considering its explosive developments during the 1970s/1980s also contributing to the emergence of astro-particle physics, a field whose identity was shaped by the growing symbiotic relationship between...