Protagonists

Discover the people, places, and institutions that have built the technical-scientific tradition in Italy and contributed to the realization of decisive turning points in science and culture at the international level. Scientists, academicians, and politicians, together with institutes and research centers, whose history can be reconstructed thanks to a documentary heritage among the richest in the world.

Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza

One of the world's major museums of the history of science. Its name highlights the importance of Galileo's legacy in museum collections and in research activity.

Sapienza - Università di Roma

One of the universities more; large in Europe by number of students, professors, administrators and administrative staff. Despite the problems deriving from such a mammoth and bureaucratic structure, Sapienza has provided and continues to provide Italy with a large part of the country's ruling class.

Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, detta dei XLThe Academy works for the promotion and dissemination of scientific progress in the mathematical, physical and natural sciences.

Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da VinciA museum dedicated to science, innovation, to the "Becoming of the world", which recognizes in Leonardo da Vinci the ideal symbol of the union between humanistic and scientific culture.

Antonietta Gallone Galassi: Una vita tra scienze e beni culturali

A physicist, she has dedicated her professional activity and research to the application of analytical techniques for the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage. She has promoted multidisciplinarity and dialogue between historians, conservators, technicians and scientific experts. She has contributed to important restorations, including that of the Ultima Cena.

Antonio Vallisneri: Un campione dello sperimentalismo galileiano tra scienze mediche e naturalisticheEntomology scholar and Medicine professor at the Padova University, he worked to demonstrate the correlation between medical studies and naturalistic research. He has been the author of the first attempt to systematize the scientific Italian vocabulary in medical field.

Fausto Fumi: Note a margine della fisica dei solidi

Fausto Fumi è stato uno dei maggiori fisici italiani contemporanei. Padre del Metodo dell'ispezione diretta o Teorema di Fumi che permette di calcolare le impurità in un metallo che cambia fase. È stato direttore della Scuola Internazionale di Varenna

Ginestra Giovene Amaldi: La divulgazione scientifica? È donna

Ginestra Giovene Amaldi è stata uno dei primi divulgatori scientifici radiofonici e televisivi italiani. Ha scritto e condotto trasmissioni radio-televisive, oltre ad aver scritto numerosi libri in collaborazione con il marito Edoardo Amaldi

Edoardo Amaldi: From via Panisperna to Pugwash via CERN and SapienzaProtagonist of Italian physics since the 1930s, when he was part of the Fermi group, in the second half of the 1900s when he contributed to re-founding Italian physics, which was destroyed after the Second World War, and to found prestigious international bodies such as CERN and 'European Space Agency.

Pietro Blaserna: A life for science

Scientist and politician, he places the organization of university research at the center of his commitment, towards an active participation of Italy in the modernization processes.

Francesco Brioschi: "A popular education, adapted to everyone's needs ..."

Looking for a new model of education as a tool for growth for all walks of life. A life in support of the school of all levels and for the development of technical institutes, scientific activity and the contribution that could have led to the life of the country.

Quintino Sella: An organizer of culture

Between politics and culture, the commitment to a political, social and economic redemption of Italy in the aftermath of the Unity. The dream of a "third Rome", after that of the Caesars and that of the popes: that of science.

Vito Volterra: Mister Italian Science

Between scientific successes and opposition to the Regime, the life and activity of an undisputed protagonist of national and international research. The scientist who most influenced the scientific and cultural politics of Italy between the two world wars.