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The Science Library Committee has approved the acquisition of two archival collections belonging to the physicists Antonio Garbasso and Augusto Raffaele Occhialini.
Archivio Antonio Garbasso
Antonio Garbasso (1871–1933) was a professor of experimental physics at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence, he focused his research on spectroscopy. He played a key role in the founding of the Arcetri Institute of Physics between 1914 and 1920. After serving at the front during World War I, he moved away from pure research to focus on politics and culture, even serving as Mayor of Florence. The collection includes letters, notes, drafts of institutional speeches, and newspaper clippings. You can also find many photos from the war, shots of his work, including a meeting with Marie Curie and documentation of official ceremonies.
Archivio Augusto Raffaele Occhialini
Augusto Raffaele Occhialini (1878–1951) was a physicist who worked on radioactivity, spectroscopy, and electrical engineering. During the First World War, he worked as an assistant to Antonio Garbasso at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence This collection, donated by his granddaughter Etra Occhialini, contains his personal papers, including letters, photos, lecture notes, diaries, and excerpts from his publications. A very interesting part of the collection is the correspondence from his son, Giuseppe "Beppo" Occhialini, written while he was working at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
TheScience Campus Library selected photographs and documents from these two archives, both funds are currently undergoing reorganization and conservation and will join the existing collection of another Florentine physicist, Michele Della Corte.
Brief descriptions and images of these funds can be found in the videos produced by the Science Library, available on the University Library System's YouTube channel