Giuliano Toraldo di Francia
Italian physicist and philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Giuliano Toraldo di Francia was an Italian physicist and philosopher, known mainly for his experimental and theoretical studies in optics. Biography He was the son of the geographer and general Orazio Toraldo di Francia. After his high school studies he graduated in physics at the University of Florence in 1940 with Nello Carrara, of whom he soon became assistant at the Institute of Physics. At the same time, he carried out research activities at the National Institute of Optics in Arcetri, then directed by Vasco Ronchi. After the war, he worked at the Ducati optical research center in Bologna until 1951 when he became extraordinary professor of electromagnetic waves at the University of Florence, then full professor of the same discipline in 1954 at the National Institute of Optics , after two years of research and teaching at the University of Rochester. In 1958, he passed to the University of Florence, as a professor of optics holding a chair specially created for him. At the same time, he collaborated with the Microwave Research Institute of Florence, founded by Nello Carrara in 1946. In the 1970s, he founded and directed both the Research Institute on electromagnetic waves, now the Institute of Applied Physics of the CNR, and the Institute of Quantum Electronics . He became full professor at the University of Florence until 1991, the year of his retirement. He was appointed professor emeritus in 1992.
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