Stellar structure and compact objects before 1940: Towards relativistic astrophysics
- L. Bonolis
- Physics
- 29 March 2017
Abstract
Since the mid-1920s, different strands of research used stars as “physics laboratories” for investigating the nature of matter under extreme densities and pressures, impossible to realize on…
Bruno Pontecorvo: From slow neutrons to oscillating neutrinos
- L. Bonolis
- Physics
- 13 May 2005
Bruno Pontecorvo’s work in neutrino physics is examined and due emphasis is given to the audacity of his ideas both theoretically and experimentally. The account ends with the first solar neutrinos…
From the Rise of the Group Concept to the Stormy Onset of Group Theory in the New Quantum Mechanics. A saga of the invariant characterization of physical objects, events and theories.
- L. Bonolis, P. Laplace
- Physics
- 1 April 2004
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Walther Bothe and Bruno Rossi: The birth and development of coincidence methods in cosmic-ray physics
- L. Bonolis
- Physics
- 7 June 2011
With the advent of the Geiger-Muller counter in the late 1920s, the nature of cosmic rays became accessible to exper- imentation. When used single as cosmic-ray detectors, these devices did not have…
From cosmic ray physics to cosmic ray astronomy: Bruno Rossi and the opening of new windows on the universe
- L. Bonolis
- Physics
- 16 November 2012
Enrico Fermi : his work and legacy
- C. Bernardini, L. Bonolis
- Physics
- 2004
Enrico Fermi. His life and a comment on his work.- Commemoration talks.- Enrico Fermi and Solid State Physics.- Fermi's statistics.- Classical mechanics and the quantum revolution in Fermi's early…
The LHC timeline: a personal recollection (1980–2012)
- L. Maiani, L. Bonolis
- Physics
- 14 May 2017
Abstract
The objective of this interview is to study the history of the Large Hadron Collider in the LEP tunnel at CERN, from first ideas to the discovery of the Brout–Englert–Higgs boson, seen from…
The renaissance of general relativity in Rome : main actors, research programs and institutional structures
- L. Bonolis, A. L. Rana, R. Lalli
- Engineering
- 1 December 2017
The beginning of Edoardo Amaldi’s interest in gravitation experiments and in gravitational wave detection
- A. L. Rana, L. Bonolis
- Physics
- 1 December 2017
Unedited documents and letters allowed to establish that Edoardo Amaldi’s first interests in experiments on gravitation date back to the late 1950s, about twelve years before the beginning of the…
The Charm of Theoretical Physics (1958–1993)
- L. Maiani, L. Bonolis
- Physics
- 6 July 2017
Abstract
Personal recollections on theoretical particle physics in the years when the Standard Theory was formed. In the background, the remarkable development of Italian theoretical physics in the…
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