(April 6 2016) The Italian Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires, on April 12th (6.30 PM), is organizing the first event in a series of meetings dedicated to Italian scientists: “Galileo Galilei, the man who stopped the Sun” it is the title of a conference by Francesca Battista. “Maybe the Italian scientist best known in the world – we read in the presentation of the event known IIC -, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is the father of modern scientific thought that separates science from other kinds of knowledge, above all the religious kind. In this meeting it will be presented the life and works of this great figure of ingenuity that with scientific rigor opposed to his contemporaries, changing the way science is done forever. ” Francesca Battista, who graduated in Physics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, has achieved a PhD at the University of Lund, Sweden. After having carried out research in Germany, in 2014 she started working in the group of Condensed Matter Physics Department of the University of Buenos Aires. (Red)
