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    Keywords: Lo Surdo, Antonio. ; Electronic books.
    Description / Table of Contents: Basandosi sul ritrovamento di documenti inediti e sull'analisi di pubblicazioni scientifiche dell'epoca, gli autori hanno ricostruito la storia di questa impresa che si sviluppa nello stesso contesto della scuola di fisica romana degli anni Trenta, coinvolgendo molti dei collaboratori e seguaci di Enrico Fermi. Fanno da sfondo gli anni del consenso al fascismo, della guerra mondiale e della defascistizzazione, durante i quali virtù scientifiche e debolezze umane di alcuni protagonisti, a partire da Lo Surdo, si evidenziano nel loro stridente contrasto.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (281 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9788847015784
    Series Statement: I Blu Series
    DDC: 551
    Language: Italian
    Note: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Premessa -- Table of Contents -- Capitolo 1 Meteorologia e geofisica -- 1.1. I tanti volti della fisica terrestre -- 1.2. Emergenze a ripetizione fra Otto e Novecento -- Capitolo 2 Ascesa e declino dell'Ufficio Centrale -- 2.1. Astronomia e Fisica Terrestre al Collegio Romano -- 2.2. Primi passi del servizio sismico -- 2.3. Osservatori e stazioni sismiche -- 2.4. La meteorologia passa all'Aeronautica -- 2.5. La crisi dell'Ufficio Centrale -- Capitolo 3 L'iniziativa del Direttorio del CNR -- 3.1. Una sola cattedra di Fisica Terrestre -- 3.2. La passione di Fermi e Lo Surdo per la geofisica -- 3.3. Per prima si riorganizza la meteorologia… -- 3.4. …e poi si passa al resto della Geofisica -- Capitolo 4 Il ruolo di Guglielmo Marconi -- 4.1. I molti impegni dell'inventore della radio -- 4.2. Un nuovo compito per l'Ufficio Centrale -- 4.3. Disegno di legge per un nuovo istituto geofisico -- 4.4. L'opposizione del ministro Jung -- 4.5. Lo sfogo di Marconi -- Capitolo 5. L'ING, un nuovo istituto del CNR -- 5.1. Il progetto del professor Gino Cassinis… -- 5.2. …e quello del professor Antonino Lo Surdo -- 5.3. Marconi preferisce Lo Surdo -- Capitolo 6 La rivalità fra Lo Surdo e Fermi -- 6.1. I giudizi negativi di Emilio Segrè -- 6.2. Eccesso di zelo antisemita -- 6.3. Tentativi di distensione -- 6.4. L'occhio critico di Laura Fermi -- Capitolo 7 Lo Surdo, scienziato e didatta -- 7.1. Le equilibrate testimonianze di Amaldi -- 7.2. La stima di Mario Ageno -- 7.3. La produzione scientifica di Lo Surdo -- 7.4. Gli inizi della carriera universitaria a Napoli -- 7.5. Direttore dell'Osservatorio Geofisico a Firenze -- 7.6. Scampato al terremoto di Messina -- Capitolo 8 L'intensità di un terremoto -- 8.1. L'alba della sismologia -- 8.2. Scale empirico-quantitative -- 8.3. L'accelerazione massima di un sisma. , 8.4. Una rete accelerometrica -- 8.5. La magnitudo di Charles Richter -- Capitolo 9 Un premio Nobel mancato -- 9.1. Dalla Geofisica alla Spettroscopia -- 9.2. Le ricerche di Stark e Lo Surdo -- 9.3. Le esitazioni di Lo Surdo -- 9.4. La proposta di Garbasso -- 9.5. Il riconoscimento di Corbino -- Capitolo 10 Dall'Ufficio Invenzioni a via Panisperna -- 10.1. Mobilitazione per la Prima Guerra Mondiale -- 10.2. L'"ascoltazione" sottomarina -- 10.3. La chiamata di Lo Surdo a Roma -- 10.4. Ordinario di Fisica Complementare -- 10.5. Il giuramento al fascismo -- Capitolo 11 La stazione sismica di Roma -- 11.1. Pietro Caloi, fuoriclasse della sismologia -- 11.2. Un caposaldo per la rete sismica -- 11.3. Realizzazione di livello europeo -- 11.4. La rete geofisica integrata -- Capitolo 12 Esperimenti con le microonde -- 12.1. Il primo numero della raccolta PING -- 12.2. Alte frequenze sul lago di Albano -- 12.3. Il "raggio della morte" di Marconi -- 12.4. L'attenzione di Lo Surdo per Marconi -- Capitolo 13 Sondando la ionosfera -- 13.1. Un registratore di densità elettronica -- 13.2. La scoperta della ionosfera -- 13.3. Ivo Ranzi, pioniere della ionosfera -- 13.4. La nuova ionosonda dell'ING -- Capitolo 14 A caccia di raggi cosmici -- 14.1. L'antefatto dell'esperimento Conversi, Pancini, Piccioni -- 14.2. Convergenza tra fisici e geofisici -- 14.3. La collaborazione di Gilberto Bernardini con l'ING -- 14.4. Trentasei ricerche in dieci anni -- 14.5. Il misterioso mesotrone -- 14.6. Il reclutamento dei fisici all'ING -- 14.7. Il sodalizio fra Conversi e Piccioni -- 14.8. Verso la conclusione della collaborazione -- Capitolo 15 Elettricità dal vento -- 15.1. Autarchia ed energia eolica -- 15.2. Indagini anemologiche in tre regioni -- 15.3. I tentativi di rilancio post-bellico del progetto -- Capitolo 16 Scienza e razzismo -- 16.1. Attacco alle "ricerche giudaiche". , 16.2. Stark e Lo Surdo: due profili inaccostabili -- 16.3. Lo Surdo additato come"giudeo" -- Capitolo 17 La ricerca e la guerra -- 17.1. Verso la catastrofe -- 17.2. Le richieste di esonero avanzate da Lo Surdo -- 17.3. La controversia del Monte Rosa -- 17.4. Caos dopo l'armistizio -- 17.5. L'ING fra Roma e Pavia -- Capitolo 18 Sotto le bombe -- 18.1. I gravi danni alla rete geofisica -- 18.2. Osservatori occupati e saccheggiati -- 18.3. Il bombardamento dell'Università La Sapienza -- Capitolo 19 Il tempo delle epurazioni -- 19.1. Sanzioni contro gli ex fascisti -- 19.2. Tre inquisiti all'ING -- 19.3. Lo Surdo sotto accusa all'Accademia dei Lincei -- 19.4. Lo Surdo riammesso fra i Soci dell'Accademia -- Capitolo 20 Il distacco dal CNR -- 20.1. L'ING diventa istituto autonomo -- 20.2. Lo Surdo riconfermato direttore -- 20.3. La rete geofisica nel dopoguerra -- 20.4. Un laboratorio efficiente per la ripresa -- Capitolo 21. Bilancio delle ricerche -- 21.1. Quasi duecento lavori in 12 anni -- 21.2. Le principali tematiche di ricerca -- 21.3. I raggi cosmici al secondo posto -- 21.4. Quel che resta dell'Osservatorio di S.Alessio -- 21.5. Continuità degli studi ionosferici -- 21.6. Il laboratorio di radioattività terrestre -- 21.7. Un'impresa coronata dal successo -- Capitolo 22 Gli ultimi anni di Lo Surdo -- 22.1. Il potenziamento della rete e le pubblicazioni -- 22.2. Un direttore autoritario ma benevolo -- 22.3. Ritratto di Lo Surdo privato -- 22.4. La morte di Lo Surdo -- Appendice -- Ringraziamenti -- Bibliografia -- Indice dei nomi -- Indice degli argomenti.
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    Publication Date: 2021-01-25
    Description: At Ustica island (Palermo, Italy), in the area of Casa dei Francesi, 119 fragments of obsidian artifacts were collected on the surface of an agricultural field at an altitude of 50 m asl. In the same area, until now, scientific literature reports only the presence of late Roman pottery (4th–6th centuries AD), and no evidence has appeared that it could be the site of a prehistoric settlement. The most important prehistoric settlement, the Faraglioni Village (Middle Bronze Age) is located 700 m further north, overlooking the sea. Obsidian provenance analyses, performed on the 119 samples with absolutely non-destructive techniques WD-XRF and SEM-EDS, indicate two sources areas: Lipari (93 samples, 78%) and Pantelleria (26 samples, 22%). Concerning the obsidians from the island of Pantelleria, it was possible to also establish the sub-source of Salto la Vecchia. The typological and functional analyses of the 119 obsidian fragments point out that 115 are debitages, some of which show evidence of percussion bulbs, and only 4 are tools with micro-retouching. This work focuses on the geochemical and typological characterization of the obsidian assemblage collected, the characteristics of which suggest the existence of a prehistoric settlement in the area of the Casa dei Francesi or nearby
    Description: Published
    Description: 236-247
    Description: 6A. Geochimica per l'ambiente e geologia medica
    Description: JCR Journal
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2021-01-25
    Description: The subject of this study consists of 17 ancient glass fragments from the island of Ustica (Palermo, Italy) obtained from local museums. All the 17 glass fragments are stratigraphically decontextualized, as they were collected by archaeological surface surveys. Each fragment was analyzed by Electron Micro Probe Analyzer coupled with an Energy Dispersive X-Ray System (EMPA-EDS) and by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to obtain the composition of major, minor and trace elements. Surface analyses revealed the presence of corrosion layers in most of the glass fragments which was evident also in the chemical data. Nevertheless, reconstruction of the glassmaking processes and the approximate period of production was possible for almost all the glass fragments. Less than half of the examined fragments are attributable to recognizable typologies as unguentaria, beakers, bottles, and vases; all the other small fragments are typologically undetermined. Out of 17 fragments only one fragment is of HLLA composition possibly being produced in 17th–18th century AD, while all the others can be attributed to soda glass with different periods of production: natron glass from Roman and Early Medieval period, plantash glass from High or Late Medieval period with the exception of possible Byzantine glass from 6th century AD, and synthetic soda glasses typical of modern era. These data confirm the discontinuous habitation of the island from the Roman period as well as the import of glass objects to the island.
    Description: Published
    Description: 124–150
    Description: 6A. Geochimica per l'ambiente e geologia medica
    Description: JCR Journal
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2021-02-25
    Description: The small island of Ustica was a regular part of the obsidian distribution network in the central Mediterranean, despite its location more than 50 km north of western Sicily. More than 1000 obsidian artifacts from several different sites, ranging in age from the Neolithic through Bronze Age, were analyzed using a non-destructive, portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. Obsidian from Lipari-Gabellotto dominates the assemblages at all sites tested, yet Pantelleria obsidian from both Balata dei Turchi and Lago di Venere are of notable quantities. Obsidian was not likely a major part of the material transported across open waters to this seemingly remote location, while our data support the hypothesis that some direct travel occurred from the Aeolian Islands to Ustica.
    Description: Published
    Description: 348-392
    Description: 6A. Geochimica per l'ambiente e geologia medica
    Description: JCR Journal
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2021-01-21
    Description: This paper provides new petrochemical and paleomagnetic data from obsidian sub-sources on the island of Pantelleria, exploited since the Neolithic. Data has been obtained from 14 obsidian samples from 4 locations: Fossa della Pernice (2 sites), Salto la Vecchia and Balata dei Turchi. Here, we aim to better characterize these obsidians using a cross-disciplinary and multi-analytical approach, to further understand their archaeological significance. Major element analyses (EMP) have enabled two compositional super-groups to be distinguished: (i) Fossa della Pernice, less peralkaline and (ii) Balata dei Turchi–Salto la Vecchia, distinctly more peralkaline and having almost identical chemical patterns. Trace element analyses (LA-ICP-MS) corroborate major element groupings, with the Balata dei Turchi–Salto la Vecchia super-group being further characterized by a pronounced negative europium anomaly. Glass H2O contents (FT-IR) reveal an overlap among all the sub-sources (H2O = 0.1–0.3 wt. %). Magnetic methods have refined the petrochemical groupings, permitting further distinction between Balata dei Turchi–Salto La Vecchia and the Fossa della Pernice super-groups. The occurrence of sub-microscopic (〈 1 μm) ferromagnetic minerals results in different magnetic susceptibility and Natural Remanent Magnetization values and allows the best distinction among the products from the chosen sites. When compared with obsidian tools excavated from Bronze-age settlements on the island of Ustica (230 km NE of Pantelleria), 12% are distinctly peralkaline, indicating their provenance to be from the Balata dei Turchi sub-source.
    Description: Published
    Description: 434-453
    Description: 1A. Geomagnetismo e Paleomagnetismo
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: Obsidian, Pantelleria, Ustica, Lipari, Bronze age ; 04.05. Geomagnetism
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 2021-05-12
    Description: This research was inspired by an old stereoscopic viewer from the early 1900s, containing 42 glass slides depicting scenes from two Italian earthquakes that struck Southern Calabria and Eastern Sicily in the years 1894 and 1905, causing hundreds of deaths, but whose memory was blurred by the subsequent, great earthquake of the Messina Straits of December 28, 1908. The sequence of three-dimensional images shown by the viewer gave a deep and realistic visual impact to scenes of collapses, debris, and victims, arousing feelings of dismay. In this work, we describe the viewer apparatus; the places depicted in the stereoscopic plates, and the seismic phenomena that caused the disasters. But above all, we investigate the social and cultural aims that pushed to show the effects of local earthquakes through this kind of primitive multimedia mechanism. We exclude that the viewer, with its photographic equipment, was merely an instrument of entertainment. We rather assume that it carried out an educational task. The repetition of the sequence of tragic images of earthquakes through the stereoscopic viewer had the purpose of contributing to give awareness of the looming seismic risk and to accept rationally those recurring disasters.
    Description: Published
    Description: Se104
    Description: 4T. Sismicità dell'Italia
    Description: 5T. Sismologia, geofisica e geologia per l'ingegneria sismica
    Description: 1TM. Formazione
    Description: 2TM. Divulgazione Scientifica
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: Stereoscopic Viewer ; Calabrian-Sicilian Earthquakes ; Observational Seismology ; Seismic-Risk ; Geo-Education ; Geoethics ; 04.06. Seismology ; 05.03. Educational, History of Science, Public Issues ; 05.04. Instrumentation and techniques of general interest
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 2020-03-06
    Description: This article presents the first archaeometric research carried out so far on a group of obsidian artifacts collected in the promontory of Pirozza-Spalmatore, the site of a Neolithic settlement on the small island of Ustica (Sicily, Italy). The obsidian assemblage, consisting of 28 artifacts, was subjected to optical, typological and geochemical analyses, the latter carried out by means of a portable pXRF, in order to determine their provenance. The results indicate that 89% of the fragments come from geologic obsidian outcrops on the island of Lipari, and 11% from the island of Pantelleria. It is thus ascertained that, during the Neolithic, Ustica used two different sources of obsidian, located 150–250 km away from the site. These obsidian sources were typical of some western Sicily prehistoric villages, while eastern Sicilian villages seem to have imported obsidian exclusively from Lipari. The analyses indicate that all the obsidian artifacts attributed to Lipari come from the geological deposit of Gabellotto, while those attributed to Pantelleria come from the two distinct deposits of Lago di Venere and Balata dei Turchi.
    Description: Published
    Description: 4-17
    Description: 2TM. Divulgazione Scientifica
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: Obsidian ; Ustica (Italy) ; pXRF ; Neolithic ; Lipari ; Pantelleria
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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    Publication Date: 2020-02-11
    Description: This research was inspired by an old stereoscopic viewer from the early 1900s, containing 42 glass slides depicting scenes from two ancient and almost forgotten Italian earthquakes. We refer to the earthquakes that struck Southern Calabria and Eastern Sicily in the years 1894 and 1905, causing extensive destruction and hundreds of deaths, but whose memory was blurred by the subsequent, great earthquake of the Sicilian Strait of December 28,1908 which caused about 80,000 deaths.
    Description: Unpublished
    Description: Vienna, Austria
    Description: 4T. Sismicità dell'Italia
    Keywords: earthquake ; macroseismics ; taxiphote ; Sicily ; 04.06. Seismology ; 05.03. Educational, History of Science, Public Issues ; 05.09. Miscellaneous
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: Poster session
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 2020-03-03
    Description: In this study we applied petrochemical methods (SEM-EDS; FT-IR) in order to characterize a group of obsidian flakes collected at Ustica island (Sicily). Despite the absence of obsidian geological outcrops, a lot of obsidian fragments still emerging from the lands of Ustica testify that the island was a major import center of obsidian during the prehistory. On this island, there are some prehistoric settlements, dated from the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age (6000- 1200 BC), in which the use of obsidian continued until the beginning of metals age. Our study includes: i) Macroscopic and microscopic optical observations, which allowed selecting 18 obsidian flakes (starting from 50 obsidian flakes) on the base of their morphological characteristics. ii) Density measurements (hydrostatic balance). iii) Scanning electron microscope determination (SEM-EDS) of major elements of the obsidian glasses and minerals. Results of our analyses were compared with 12 geological samples collected in obsidian sources from Monte Arci (Sardinia), Palmarola, Lipari and Pantelleria, i.e. the four most exploited obsidian sources of the ancient world in the Western-Central Mediterranean. This study confirms the presence of the Lipari and Pantelleria sources (Sicily) in our obsidian set. iv) We also determined (by FT-IR) the hydration degree of some obsidian flakes in order to detect a possible hydration gradient between the rim and the core of the flake sample. The width of the hydration rim, if any, can be used for an approximate evaluation of the age of the tool.
    Description: Published
    Description: VO13
    Description: 2V. Struttura e sistema di alimentazione dei vulcani
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: Obsidian, Petrographic study, FT-IR, Mediterranean obsidians, Ustica Island. ; 04.08. Volcanology
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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    Publication Date: 2019-03-27
    Description: This paper discusses the first geochemical characterization of obsidian fragments from the prehistoric site of Roccapalumba (Palermo, Italy). The Neolithic age of the prehistoric settlement was constrained by pottery and flint tools discovered in the same archaeological context. To define the provenance of the investigated obsidian artifacts major and trace element analyses have been carried out by using scanning electron microscopy (SEM–EDX) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA–ICP–MS). The comparison with literature data of the Central Mediterranean source areas, based on trace elements content and their ratios allow of constraining a provenance of the Roccapalumba obsidians from the Lipari Island. The obsidian lava flow from Gabellotto Valley is the most probable source of volcanic glass at Lipari and also the most exploited in the Mediterranean area for manufactured tools. The obtained results can contribute in reconstructing the trade/exchange and procurement relationships occurred between the prehistoric human groups inhabiting Sicily during Neolithic age.
    Description: Published
    Description: 151-167
    Description: 7SR AMBIENTE – Servizi e ricerca per la società
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: Roccapalumba ; trace elements ; obsidian ; Neolithic ; SEM-EDX, ; Lipari Island ; LA-ICP-MS ; Archaeology and Archaeometry
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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