The Scientific and Political Context

At the next meeting of Sips, held in Bologna from October 30 to November 5, 

At this time, Bonino s research was concerned with physico-chemical problems and spectroscopical methods. In a parallel way, his laboratory activity turned to the electrolytic reduction of some natural organic substances. It was hoped that this 

On this occasion, Lennard-Jones proposed a molecular orbital analysis for diatomic molecules, whereas Raman discussed his recent discovery, which later became known as the Raman effect. 

In 1928 Bonino had opened the March 31 issue of Nature and read about the Raman effect for the first time. Soon afterward, he ended his long series of papers on infrared spectra by publishing two articles that dealt with the new Raman spectroscopy. [34] These were written in German and published in Zeitschrift fur Physik in 1929. In the first of these two papers, dated May 1929, Bonino reported on the Raman spectra of dichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene and discussed their relationship with the infrared spectra. The second paper was written with his coworker Briill and appeared in the fall of 1929. In it they studied the relationships between Raman spectra and geometrical isomerism. [35] 

Through the mediation of Betti and Parravano, the Reale Accademia dTtalia helped finance Bonino s foreign scientific travels. [38] In a report in 1935 to the Academy, Bonino shed light on the motives that led him to undertake these trips  

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