Rasetti, Franco, 1901-2001
Oral history interview with Franco Rasetti, 1982.
Along with Enrico Fermi, Franco Rasetti played a key role in the rebirth of Italian physics in the 1920s and 1930s. In this interview he talks about experiments at Caltech on the Raman effect in 1928-1929, mountain climbing, his passion for bugs, fossils and flowers, and doing physics in Florence, Rome, Berlin-Dahlem and Quebec. Rasetti also reminisces about the Rome school of mathematics and other scientists he has known and worked with in Europe and in North America, including Robert and Glenn Millikan, Lise Meitner, and O. M. Corbino.
Italian scientist: physicist, palaeontologist, botanist. He was a member of the Rome school of physics between 1927 and 1938. He spent the 1928-1929 academic year at Caltach in R.A. Millikan's laboratory, where he did important work on the Raman effect. In 1939 he joined the faculty of Laval University in Quebec, Canada where he founded the university's first department of physics. He took up geology and paleontology while in Canada. In 1947, he accepted a position as professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, where he remained until 1970, returning afterwards to Italy.
Corbino, O. M. (Orso Mario) 1876-
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.
Rasetti, Franco, 1901-2001
Paleontology.
Botany.
Raman effect -- History.
Physics -- Italy -- History.
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Goodstein, Judith R., interviewer.
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