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

Physics for Medicine at the Milan Institute of Complementary Physics

6 Sept 2023, 12:05

20m

Aula Rosino (DFA - Astronomia)

SISFA 2023 Da Poleni a B. Rossi e oltre / From Poleni to B. Rossi, and Beyond: 20th Century

Speaker

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

Description

The interaction between Physics and Medicine was one of the founding issues that guided the establishment and development of the research laboratories of the Milan Institute of Complementary Physics (then Institute of Physics). In this communication, we shall take into consideration the main teaching and research activities that formed a bridge between Physics and Medicine in Milan in the second half of the 1920s, in particular as regards radiology and its connections with the erecting "Vittorio Emanuele III" Institute for the Study and Treatment of Cancer (today's National Cancer Institute).