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Gianni Morchio and SISSA

In: Trails in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

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  • Gianfausto Dell’Antonio

    (La Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Mathematics
    Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Division of Mathematics)

Abstract

Gianni Morchio had a central role in the development of the research activities hosted at SISSA (the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste) in the field of the mathematical methods for quantum mechanics, even without ever being a faculty member there. He has been indeed the first “master” of many young students who entered SISSA after completing their M.Sc. in Pisa and subsequently wrote valuable Ph.D. theses for the doctoral degree in mathematical physics. Through his classes of quantum mechanics and of mathematical methods for physics they arrived at SISSA equipped with solid grounds with which they could successfully grapple with the problems they later worked on in the course of their doctoral researches. To better understand all this, it is worth recalling that SISSA had started its activities as a post-graduate school (“Advanced School of Physics”) after the M.Sc. degree, at a time when no proper doctoral programmes were run in Italy. It was born out of an idea of the physicist Paolo Budinich, inspired to the recent foundation of the ICTP (the International Centre for Theoretical Physics), an institution operated by the UNESCO. The goal was to convince the Italian government to establish, next to the ICTP, a post-graduate school on scientific disciplines, somewhat linked to the Italian academic system.

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  • Gianfausto Dell’Antonio, 2023. "Gianni Morchio and SISSA," Springer Books, in: Andrea Cintio & Alessandro Michelangeli (ed.), Trails in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, pages 273-275, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-44988-8_21
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44988-8_21
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