Article ID: CBB545240140

Masters and students in Italian Physics between the 19th and 20th centuries: the Felici-Bartoli-Stracciati-Corbino case (2020)

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In the second half of the 19th century, a special practice of research and training in physics took shape in Pisa, characterized by a particular attention to theoretical studies and to combining experimental activity with a profound mastery of mathematical tools. This peculiar approach, started by Carlo Matteucci and Ottaviano Mossotti, continued and spread by Riccardo Felici, Enrico Betti, Adolfo Bartoli and Vito Volterra, was quite an exception in the framework generally marked by strict experimentalism and positivist empiricism of the Italian physics cabinets of the time. The present paper highlights a special path connecting this tradition of the Pisan school to the scientific environment that was formed in the early years of the 20th century at the Royal Physical Institute in Via Panisperna in Rome, through the interaction of Orso Mario Corbino with Volterra on one side, and the imprinting left on Corbino by Adolfo Bartoli and his student and collaborator Enrico Stracciati.

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Authors & Contributors
Lori, E.
Paz, María de
Mizrahi, Moti
Yan, Chenguang
Valentini, Antony
Signori, Elisa
Concepts
Physics
Philosophy of science
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Mathematics and its relationship to science
Mathematics
Philosophy of mathematics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Taisho period (Japan, 1912-1926)
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Italy
Pisa (Italy)
Brussels (Belgium)
Ohio (U.S.)
United States
Hungary
Institutions
Solvay Conferences
Società Malacologica Italiana
Universität Dorpat
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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