Corrado Lamberti

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Corrado Lamberti (6 May 1947 – 17 April 2020) was an Italian astrophysicist, science journalist and teacher. He was one of the most appreciated popularizers of astronomy in Italy, and along with Margherita Hack he headed the astronomy magazines L'Astronomia and Le Stelle.[1][2]

Biography

Lamberti in 2018

Lamberti, born in

publishing houses.[3][4][5]

Lamberti returned to the limelight of political commitment, in his region, in 2008, when he was one of the founders of the association La cruna del lago, a non-partisan group that fights against the overbuilding of the coast of

He died on 17 April 2020, aged 72, at the General Area Hospital Moriggia Pelascini of

Career and works

Lamberti authored over a thousand articles concerning astrophysics, particle physics, astronautics, as well as the history and epistemological aspects of astronomy, published in magazines and newspapers. He held extra-curricular courses in astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics for students of various high schools in Como.[12][13]

He collaborated on the Italian edition of

Cambridge Encyclopedia: Astronomy (Laterza), writing the updates of the two editions of 1981 and 1989.[14]

He was author of an

Springer Verlag Italy-Gruppo B Edit.[15]

For Springer Italia he published in 2011 the book Capire l'universo (Understanding the universe), a popular text on the history and the most recent discoveries in the field of cosmology.[16]

For Aliberti Editore he published in 2012 the book Il bosone di Higgs: il trionfo del Modello Standard o l'alba di una nuova fisica?, in which, drawing inspiration from the historic discovery of the

elementary particles. In 2015 he published a new (expanded) edition of the book for Imprimatur Editore: Il bosone di Higgs: dopo il trionfo del Modello Standard spunterà l'alba di una nuova fisica?.[17][18]

In October 2014 he published La battaglia di Tremezzina, a short history of the

Lario, reconstructed on the basis of documents and memories handed down to him by his father Carlo, who had fought with the 52nd Garibaldi Brigade "Luigi Clerici", the partisan group which, in April 1945, arrested Benito Mussolini and other Fascist hierarchs near Dongo.[19]

In June 2016 Lamberti published Viva Margherita (

Sperling & Kupfer), an affectionate memoir of his thirty-year association, for friendship and for work, with Margherita Hack and her husband Aldo De Rosa, as well as an autobiography describing the author's relationships with protagonists of physics, astronomy, and science popularization in Italy.[20][21]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Le Stelle" Archived 28 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Stefano Covino (18 April 2020). "Corrado Lamberti, un grande divulgatore".
  3. ^ Covid 19, morto Corrado Lamberti: l'astrofisico aveva 72 anni
  4. ^ Coronavirus, muore l'astrofisico Corrado Lamberti
  5. ^ Un ricordo di Corrado Lamberti
  6. ^ Tremezzina: addio a Corrado Lamberti, l'uomo delle stelle
  7. ^ Marco Palumbo (17 April 2020). "Altro grave lutto in Tremezzina Morto l'astrofisico Corrado Lamberti". La provincia di Como.
  8. ^ Covid 19, morto Corrado Lamberti: l'astrofisico aveva 72 anni
  9. ^ Coronavirus, muore l'astrofisico Corrado Lamberti
  10. ^ Addio Corrado Lamberti
  11. ^ Un ricordo di Corrado Lamberti
  12. ^ Covid 19, morto Corrado Lamberti: l'astrofisico aveva 72 anni
  13. ^ Coronavirus, muore l'astrofisico Corrado Lamberti
  14. ^ L'addio a Corrado Lamberti, pubblicista, "l'uomo delle stelle" amico di Margherita Hack
  15. ^ Coronavirus, muore l'astrofisico Corrado Lamberti
  16. ^ "Capire l'universo"
  17. ^ Coronavirus, muore l'astrofisico Corrado Lamberti
  18. ^ L'addio a Corrado Lamberti, pubblicista, "l'uomo delle stelle" amico di Margherita Hack
  19. ^ L'addio a Corrado Lamberti, pubblicista, "l'uomo delle stelle" amico di Margherita Hack
  20. ^ Coronavirus, muore l'astrofisico Corrado Lamberti
  21. ^ L'addio a Corrado Lamberti, pubblicista, "l'uomo delle stelle" amico di Margherita Hack
  22. ^ Astropress
  23. ^ Astropress
  24. ^ M.P.C. 33787 of 2 February 1999
  25. ^ Coronavirus, muore l'astrofisico Corrado Lamberti
  26. ^ L'addio a Corrado Lamberti, pubblicista, "l'uomo delle stelle" amico di Margherita Hack
  27. ^ "Corrado Lamberti ci racconta le onde gravitazionali". Archived from the original on 2021-07-29. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  28. ^ Scomparso Corrado Lamberti, fondatore della rivista l'Astronomia e premio Lacchini UAI
  29. ^ Astropress