0.75 cu. ft. (1 document box) (1 half document box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Field notes
Black-and-white photographs
Manuscripts
Date:
1944-1965 and undated
Descriptive Entry:
These papers consist of field notebooks and notes; a draft of a publication; and photographs of geologic formations.
Historical Note:
Franco Dino Rasetti (1901-2001) was born in Castiglione del Lago, Italy. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Pisa, 1923, and honorary degrees
from Laval University, Ph.D., 1948, and the University of Glasgow, LL.D., 1957. He came to the United States in 1947 and became a naturalized citizen in 1952. In the early
1970s he returned to Italy.
Rasetti was an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Florence, 1923-1926, and the University of Rome, 1927-1930. He then became Professor of Physics at Rome,
1931-1938; Laval University, 1939-1947; and Johns Hopkins University, 1947-1970.
In addition to his academic appointments, Rasetti was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, 1928-1929; a fellow at Berlin's Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute, 1931-1932; a Research Associate at Columbia University, 1936; a Visiting Professor at the University of Miami, 1958-1959; a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellow, 1959; and a Consultant for the National Committee on Nuclear Research at Rome, 1959.
Although Rasetti was a nuclear physicist, his avocation was paleobiology with an emphasis on Cambrian Rockies. From 1964 to 1967, Rasetti was an Honorary Research Associate
in Invertebrate Paleontology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the Paleontological Society
and received the National Academy of Science's Walcott Medal in 1952.
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Collection Citation:
New York Airways Collection, Acc. NASM.1992.0052, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume II, Le collezioni botaniche = The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. Volume II, The botanical collections / a cura di = edited by Mauro Raffaelli
Title:
Collezioni botaniche
Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. Volume II, The botanical collections
Botanical collections
Author:
Università di Firenze Museo di storia naturale Search this
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume I, Le collezioni della Specola : zoologia e cere anatomiche = The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. Volume I, The collections of La Specola : zoology and anatomical waxes / a cura di = edited by Giulio Barsanti, Guido Chelazzi
Title:
Collezioni della Specola : zoologia e cere anatomiche
Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. Volume I, The collections of La Specola : zoology and anatomical waxes
Collections of La Specola : zoology and anatomical waxes
Author:
Museo zoologico La Specola (Florence, Italy) Search this
