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The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini

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  1. Pietro Redondi

    1. Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

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  2. Giorgio Sironi

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

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  3. Pasquale Tucci

    1. Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  4. Guido Vegni

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XLI
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  2. Occhialini Scientific Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Arcetri School of Physics

      • Alberto Bonetti, Massimo Mazzoni
      Pages 3-34

    3. Giuseppe Occhialini and the history of cosmic-ray physics in the 1930s: From Florence to Cambridge

      • Martha Cecilia Bustamante
      Pages 35-49

    4. Occhialini’s trajectory in Latin America

      • Ana M. Ribeiro de Andrade
      Pages 51-69

    5. Occhialini’s scientific production between the two English periods

      • Leonardo Gariboldi
      Pages 71-77

    6. Occhialini’s contribution to the discovery of the pion. An interview by L. Gariboldi

      • William O. Lock, Leonardo Gariboldi
      Pages 79-92

    7. Occhialini and the Università Libre de Bruxelles. An interview by L. Gariboldi

      • Alberto Bonetti, Leonardo Gariboldi
      Pages 93-106

    8. Elementary-particle physics at the University of Milan 1951–1956

      • Riccardo Levi-Setti
      Pages 107-113

    9. Giuseppe Occhialini in Milan in the sixties and beyond: His legacy for particle physics and his influence on young researchers and students

      • Guido Vegni
      Pages 115-127

    10. Giuseppe Occhialini and CERN

      • Emanuele Quercigh
      Pages 129-132

    11. 1960–1970: Milano and Gruppo Spazio

      • Giorgio Sironi
      Pages 133-140

    12. La Collaboration Milano-Saclay-Palermo

      • Bernard Agrinier, Lydie Koch-Miramond, Jacques Paul
      Pages 141-149

    13. Beppo Occhialini and the birth of Space Physics in Italy and in Europe: Personal memories

      • Livio Scarsi
      Pages 151-171

    14. An Italian school of high-energy astrophysics: A personal view from the sixties to Beppo-SAX

      • Giuseppe Cesare Perola
      Pages 173-194

    15. Beppo and space research in Italy

      • Giuliano Boella
      Pages 195-198

    16. Brief summary of the LFCTR/IFCTR history

      • Gabriele E. Villa
      Pages 199-206

  3. Present Day Perspectives in Research Fields Pioneered by Occhialini

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Are diamonds for ever, or do protons decay? A tale of the unexpected

      • Don H. Perkins
      Pages 209-222

    3. Present appeal in pion decay studies and applications

      • Antonio Bertin, Pietro Faccioli, Antonio Vitale
      Pages 223-234
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  • Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Pietro Redondi

  • Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Giorgio Sironi

  • Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Pasquale Tucci

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Guido Vegni

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