Nadia Robotti is an Italian historian of physics specializing in Italian physics from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, including the works of

Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project ...

, Ettore Majorana, and Bruno Pontecorvo. She is a professor of physics at the University of Genoa and an external project leader at the .

Books

Robotti's books include: *''Fisica, meteorologia e sismologia nell'Ottocento. Il contributo del Seminario Vescovile di Chiavari'' (with Alessandro Paoletti, University of Genoa, 2000) *''Ettore Majorana: Aspects of His Scientific and Academic Activity'' (with Francesco Guerra, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2008) *''The Lost Notebook of Enrico Fermi: The True Story of the Discovery of Neutron-Induced Radioactivity'' (with Francesco Guerra, Springer, 2018, translated from a 2015 Italian edition by Christine V. Pennison).

Recognition

In 2008, the Italian Physical Society gave Robotti their prize in history of physics for her work on Majorana. She was the recipient of the 2017 International Prize "Le Muse" for history, the first winner to work in the history of science. She was elected as a corresponding member of the

International Academy of the History of Science The International Academy of the History of Science () is a membership organization for historians of science. The Academy was founded on 17 August 1928 at the Congress of Historical Science by Aldo Mieli, Abel Rey, George Sarton, Henry E. Sig ...

in 2007, and as a full member in 2019.

References

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