Panoramica con Terrazza fratelli Pontecorvo e Piazza Baleari dall'alto _ foto con drone (M. Boi, Comune di Pisa)
Piazza delle Baleari
Panoramica con Terrazza fratelli Pontecorvo e Piazza Baleari dall'alto _ foto con drone (M. Boi, Comune di Pisa)A spacious terrace overlooking the sea that opens on one side of Piazza delle Baleari. The terrace was named after two of the numerous Pontecorvo brothers: Bruno and Gilberto (known as Gillo), the former a famous scientist, and the latter an acclaimed director, screenwriter and actor.The two scientist brothers:
Bruno Pontecorvo (Marina di Pisa 1913 - Dubna 1993), world-renowned scientist,fundamental figure of modern science, together with Enrico Fermi and Ettore Maiorana, has contributed to developing the physics of today and tomorrow. His studies on 'neutrinos' has opened the doors to a research sector which in recent years has proved to be among the richest in news and results. In 1955 the scientist became a member of the Communist Party: in those years he was mainly concerned with the birth of 'strange particles' and inaugurated the physics of high energy neutrinos.
Guido Pontecorvo (Pisa 1907 - Pisa 1999) Graduated in 1928 from the Faculty of Agricultureof the University of Pisa. After leaving Italy due to the racial laws of the fascist regime, he decided to stop in Edinburgh, starting his brilliant research in the field of genetics: he was director of the Genetics department of the University of Glasgow and a member of the staff of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund of London. He was among the first to undertake studies for the determination of human chromosome maps and introduced the technique of irradiation with X-rays to cause chromosome breakage.
