Ugo Tiberio
Ugo Tiberio | |
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Born | Campobasso, Kingdom of Italy | 19 August 1904
Died | 17 May 1980 Livorno, Italy | (aged 75)
Allegiance | Kingdom of Italy |
Service/ | Regia Marina |
Rank | Lieutenant colonel, Naval Weapons Corps |
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Ugo Tiberio (Campobasso, 19 August 1904 โ Livorno, 17 May 1980) was an Italian engineer, naval officer and university teacher, best known for his role in the development of the Gufo radar. He was the nephew of naval officer and scientist Vincenzo Tiberio.
Biography
Born in Campobasso in 1904 from Alberto Tiberio and Maria Rachele De Feo, he was directed to a career in the Navy by his maternal uncle
Tiberio was recalled into service in January 1937, following Italy's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, resuming his studies within the Royal Electrotechnical and Communications Institute (Regio Istituto Elettrotecnico e delle Comunicazioni della Marina, RIEC) in Livorno, where he worked until 1943. From 1937 to 1953 he was also a teacher at the Naval Academy of Livorno; in 1938 he was promoted to the rank of captain of the Naval Weapons Corps, and in 1940 he became teacher of electrotechnics at the University of Palermo. He was able to solve the theoretical problem of calculating the intensity of the echo, giving substantial contribution to the development of the radar equation, which he described in an article published in 1939; he proposed and discussed two implementation schemes, one with frequency modulation and one with pulses, proposing to test both while giving preference to the first, on which he based his radar prototype. He also suggested the use of the Doppler effect for locating vehicles; he developed a device based on this principle which he called the radiotachometer, due to the greater accuracy in measuring the speed of objects.[5][4]
In June 1940, a few days before Italy's entry into the
After the war, Tiberio continued his research work in the field of applied
References
- ^ a b c Paolo Alberini, Franco Prosperini, Dizionario biografico Uomini della Marina 1861-1946, pp. 514-515
- ^ a b "L'invenzione del radar: il contributo di Ugo Tiberio dal 1935 al 1943 (The invention of radar: the contribution of Ugo Tiberio from 1935 to 1943)" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-04.
- ^ a b c "Ugo Tiberio - Comune di Livorno".
- ^ a b c d Lorem ipsum. "TIBERIO, Ugo in "Dizionario Biografico"". Treccani.it. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ "Introduction to Radar Signal & Data Processing: The Opportunity" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ "Bibliografia di Ugo Tiberio (Bibliography of Hugo Tiberio)" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-04.