Chapters
Final Observations
The institute on Via Panisperna can, quite rightly, be considered the greatest legacy from Pietro Blaserna’s complex activity. Although he was still an experimental physicist whose scientific activity fell within the confines of classical physics, nevertheless he had always stressed the need for bot...
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Senator
Blaserna’s appointment as senator by royal decree on 4 December 1890 was announced in the session of 11 December.
Secretary, Vice President, President, Director
It is not easy to follow in a linear fashion all Blaserna’s positions and institutional commitments during his long and intense career. He was an extremely active character and he carried out various duties on different fronts at the same time, in Italy and abroad.
Rome, Prelude
Professor Cannizzaro informed me a few days ago, in Vienna, of the decision taken by Your Excellency to send me to Rome as professor of experimental physics and as director of the new Physics Institute, which will have to be set up there from scratch. I thank you most warmly for your choice having f...
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Education and Studies
Pietro Blaserna was born in the Austrian province of Trieste, on 22 February 1836, at Fiumicello d’Aquileia, a village in the Friuli lowlands where his father Matteo, a royal hydraulic engineer originally from Monfalcone, had moved in order to direct the works on the embankments of the Isonzo river.
A Gentleman Scientist
With these words Orso Corbino, O.M., who had replaced him in the post of director of the Physics Institute in Rome, concluded the commemoration of Blaserna, M. written for the Società degli Spettroscopisti and published in 1918, the year of his death.