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Showing posts with label Scientists. Show all posts

27 May 2025

Giovanni Battista Beccaria - physicist and mathematician

Monk who explained how lightning conductors work Beccaria was Professor of Physics at the University of Turin The physicist, mathematician a...

15 April 2023

Italy’s first nuclear reactor opens

Facility based on pioneer Enrico Fermi’s historic Chicago-Pile series The Ispra-1 reactor was the first nuclear reactor to be built on Itali...

9 March 2023

Andrew Viterbi – electrical engineer and businessman

The amazing life of 'the father of the mobile telephone' Even at the age of 88, Viterbi remains actively involved in the scientific ...

23 November 2015

Prospero Alpini - botanist

How coffee was first introduced to Europe Prospero Alpini's journals suggest he saw coffee for the first time in Egypt Physician...

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