Nadia Robotti is an Italian historian of physics specializing in Italian physics from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, including the works of Enrico Fermi, Ettore Majorana, and Bruno Pontecorvo. She is a professor of physics at the University of Genoa and an external project leader at the Museo storico della fisica e Centro di studi e ricerche "Enrico Fermi" [ it]. ^[1]

Books

Robotti's books include:

• Fisica, meteorologia e sismologia nell'Ottocento. Il contributo del Seminario Vescovile di Chiavari (with Alessandro Paoletti, University of Genoa, 2000) ^[2]
• Ettore Majorana: Aspects of His Scientific and Academic Activity (with Francesco Guerra, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2008) ^[3]
• The Lost Notebook of Enrico Fermi: The True Story of the Discovery of Neutron-Induced Radioactivity (with Francesco Guerra, Springer, 2018, translated from a 2015 Italian edition by Christine V. Pennison). ^[4]

Recognition

In 2008, the Italian Physical Society gave Robotti their prize in history of physics for her work on Majorana. ^[1] She was the recipient of the 2017 International Prize "Le Muse" for history, the first winner to work in the history of science. ^[5]

She was elected as a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 2007, and as a full member in 2019. ^[6]

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