Franco Selleri (

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, Italy, 9 October 1936 – 20 November 2013) was an Italian

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and professor at the

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. He received his Doctorate / Ph.D. cum laude at the Università di Bologna in 1958, and was a fellow of the

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beginning 1959. He was a member of the

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and the Fondation Louis de Broglie, and served on the board of directors of the

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. He is known for his analysis of the foundations of relativity theory and

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.Oral History Interview by American Physical Society
/ref> Several solutions have been proposed for the paradoxes pointed out by him. Philosophically, his position was that of a realist. He was in close contact with

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who, though very old, took part in a conference on the subject that Selleri organized in 1985 in Bari.Obituary CERN Courier cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/56228 He had numerous visiting professorships and fellowships, including

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, Saclay,

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, and Dubna. Also, he was the recipient of a medal from Gdanskie Towarzystwo Naukowe (Poland). During his scientific career, he published more than 200 papers in particle physics, quantum theory, relativity and history and philosophy of physics. He was the author of numerous books and editor of numerous conference proceedings on topics relating to the foundations of physics.

Books

*2009 Weak Relativity: The Physics of Space and Time Without Paradoxes *2007 Controlled Nucleosynthesis: Breakthroughs in Experiment and Theory, , *2003 Lezioni di relativita - da Einstein all etere di Lorentz, *2002 La Natura del Tempo: Propagazioni super-luminali, paradosso dei gemelli, teletrasporto (The Nature of Time), *1998 Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen Paradox in Atomic, Nuclear, and Particle Physics, *1998 Open Questions in Relativistic Physics, , *1995 Advances in Fundamental Physics, , *1993 Fundamental Questions in Quantum Physics and Relativity: Collected Papers in Honor of Louis de Broglie , *1992 Wave-Particle Duality, , *1990 Quantum Paradoxes and Physical Reality co-authored with Alwy van der Merwe, *1989 Fisica Senza Dogma (Physics without Dogma), *1988 Quantum Mechanics versus Local Realism: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox (Physics of Atoms and Molecules), *1983/1990 Die Debatte um die Quantentheorie (The Debate on Quantum Theory)

References

External links

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Telesio - Galilei Academy of Science Board
{{DEFAULTSORT:Selleri, Franco 20th-century Italian physicists Theoretical physicists 1936 births 2013 deaths Scientists from Bologna University of Bologna alumni People associated with CERN 21st-century Italian physicists Cornell University faculty