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Enrico Fermi was both a brilliant theorist and an unusually gifted experimentalist — a combination of talents seldom found among twentieth-century physicists. Born in 1901 in Rome, Fermi obtained his doctor s degree in physics magna cum laude from the University of Pisa at the age of 21, with a dissertation on x-rays. 

Stanis la o Ca n n izza ro (1826-1910) was born in Palermo, Sicily, the son of the chief of police. He studied at the University of Pisa under Rafaelle Piria and also worked in Peris with Michei-Eugene Chevreul. As a youth, he took part in the Sicilian revolution of 1848 and was at one point condemned to death. He was professor of chemistry at the universities of Genoa, Palermo, and Rome and is best known for being the first to clarify the distinction between atoms and molecules. 

Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy... 

The electrocontractile response of a composite of a PVA-PAA gel doped with PPy has been investigated by a group in the University of Pisa [70], The composite strip (initial length 3.05 cm, thickness 0.016 cm) in a 0.05 N NaCl solution has acted as both an electrode and an actuator. When dc voltages up to 2 V were applied, PPy doped in the gel underwent a redox reaction to change the pH inside the gel, and the change in size was observed within 30 min. The measured length variation was about 2%. 

M.P. Colombini, F. Modugno, E. Ribechini, The Egyptian mummies in the Museo di Anatomia of the University of Pisa a chemical approach for the characterization of balms, Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage, 13, 83 87 (2004). 

G. Gautier, A Reliable Analytical Procedure for the Characterisation and Identification of Proteinaceous Media in Wall Paintings, PhD Thesis, University of Pisa (2006). 

Alessia Andreotti, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Via Risorgimento 35, 56126 Pisa, Italy... 

We acknowledge financial support by the MIUR SPARX and MIUR-FSRIS project Impianti Innovativi multiscopo per la produzione di radiazione X and by the INFN project PLASMON-X. Access to the IOQ installation was supported by LASERLAB. We thank F. Cornolti from the Physics Department of the University of Pisa for fruitful discussion and suggestions on the preliminary modeling of the data. 

Authors are grateful to Philippe Martin and all the colleagues of the PHI group from CEA-Saclay to Danilo Giulietti, Leonida A. Gizzi, Luca Labate, and all the other colleagues of the ILIL team from CNR, INFN, and University of Pisa. 

I wish to thank the many friends who have discussed and criticised my ideas with patience and benevolence, especially Professor J. P. Kennedy and Professors Giusti and Magagnini and their colleagues at the University of Pisa and I am indebted to Mr. D. W. Grattan of my Research Group for much help in the preparation of this Lecture. 

Department of Pharmaceutical Technology/Biopharmaceutics, University of Pisa, I-... 

MARTIN A. BENNETT Australian National University, Canberra FAUSTO CALDERAZZO University of Pisa... 

FERMI, ENRICO (1901-1954). Fermi yvas an American physicist bom in Rome. It should be noted that he won a fellowship to the University of Pisa for a paper on sound waves and after only lour years al Pisa, he received a Ph D. in physics. 

Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Via Bonanno 6, Pisa, Italy e-mail cmartini farm.unipi.it... 

The authors aim to provide an up-to-date report on the state of the field. Our main scientific activity involves structural and dynamic studies of paramagnetic metalloproteins, in a Research center at the University of Florence. The laboratory is a NMR Research Infrastructure resource supported by the European Union to perform a European service. We are thus exposed to the needs of the scientific community, and have responded to them in several ways, from the development of new instruments or part of them to the description of new phenomena and development of new software. Since 1985, together with colleagues from the Universities of Pisa and Siena, we have organized nine Chianti Workshops on Electron and Nuclear Relaxation, a series of conferences well known to the scientific community in the field. 

CNR-Institute of Biophysics University of Pisa Via Risorgimento 35 1-56100 Pisa Italy... 

This work was supported by grants of the Italian M. U. R. and of the University of Pisa. References... 

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