Conveners
History of nuclear and particle physics
- angelo pagano (INFN Catania and Dipartimento di Fisica "e. Majrana")
Vengono esaminati gli aspetti rilevanti dell’evoluzione storica della Fisica dei nuclei in Italia dopo l’avvio delle ricerche genericamente intese di fisica nucleare del gruppo di via Panisperna che ne segnano sostanzialmente la nascita con la scoperta della radioattività artificiale indotta da neutroni e l’avvio delle ricerche con reazioni (nucleari) indotte appunto da neutroni. Dopo...
In the second half of the 19th century, a special practice of research and training in physics took shape in Pisa, characterized by a peculiar attention to theoretical studies and to combining experimental activity with a profound mastery of mathematical tools.
This approach, carried on especially by Riccardo Felici, Enrico Betti, Adolfo Bartoli and Vito Volterra, was quite an exception in...
"With a source so small to fit in one hand": Fermi and the discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity”
On the 120th anniversary of the birth of Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), we will try to reconstruct the extraordinary discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity made by him, working alone, in March 1934.
For this discovery, together with that, in the following October, of the effect of the...
The presentation will highlight Bruno Touschek’s path towards his fundamental contribution to the birth of matter-antimatter colliders in Europe, from his early years in Vienna, until the conception, building and operation of the first electron-positron collider AdA in the early 1960’s, and the proposal for the larger machine Adone. Since then, particle colliders have become a major research...
