Giuseppe Arcidiacono (1927–1998) was an

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, born in

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. He earned his degree in physics at the

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in 1951. Arcidiacono was mathematician

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's main disciple. Together they worked on what they called projective relativity at the

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. In 1958 Arcidiacono won a scholarship to the Istituto H. Poincaré in

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. He won the

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prize from the

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. From 1969 until his death in 1998 he was Professor of

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at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Arcidiacono, Giuseppe 1927 births 1998 deaths People from Acireale 20th-century Italian physicists Academic staff of the University of Perugia Scientists from Sicily