Bruno Bertotti

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Bruno Bertotti
Born(1930-12-24)24 December 1930
Mantua, Italy
Died20 October 2018(2018-10-20) (aged 87)
Pavia, Italy
NationalityItalian
AwardsItalian Gold Medal for Merit in Science and Culture (2007)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Pavia
Academic advisorsErwin Schrödinger
Academic work
DisciplineTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Pavia
Notable studentsAlberto Vecchio

Bruno Bertotti (24 December 1930 – 20 October 2018) was an Italian physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Pavia. He was one of the last students of physicist Erwin Schrödinger.[1]

Bertotti was well known for his contributions to

metric theory of gravitation and it is equal to one in general relativity.[4]

More recent studies

barycenter of the solar system. The gravitomagnetic effect in the Cassini
radioscience experiment was implicitly postulated by Bertotti as having a pure general relativistic origin but its theoretical value has been never tested in the experiment which effectively makes the experimental uncertainty in the measured value of gamma actually larger (by a factor of 10) than that claimed by Bertotti and co-authors in Nature.

Between 1953 and 1956, Bertotti worked as a scholar at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Following, Bertotti was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in 1958-59.[7] In 2007 he was awarded the Italian Gold Medal for Merit in Science and Culture.[8] Among the last scholars in relativity from the University of Pavia are Alessandro Spallicci and Alberto Vecchio.

See also

References

  1. ^ Ghezzi, Anna (22 October 2018). "Addio al fisico Bruno Bertotti I suoi esperimenti nello spazio". La Provincia Pavese (in Italian). Archived from the original on 23 October 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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  4. arXiv:math.HO/0506395
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  7. ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
  8. ^ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica italiana". Presidenza della Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 28 March 2016.


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