Giorgina Madìa (born 27 December 1904 in Naples, Italy) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer, specializing in electrical communications, and a member of the Italian resistance during World War II.

Giorgina Madìa
Born27 December 1904 (1904-12-27) (age 119)
Naples, Italy
Diedc. 1942
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)Physicist and electrical engineer

Biography

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Her parents were Ernesto and Olga Ferrari.[1]

She worked at the National Research Council and later as a professor at the Università degli studi di Napoli. She was also a professor of physics at nautical institutes and in charge of electrical engineering in the University of Bari. Her principal area of expertise was in electromagnetism and communications. electric.[1]

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 at Bologna, Italy, and gave a talk titled I trasformatori telefonici.[2][3]

During World War II, she worked in a telephone office in Milan, where she joined the Italian resistance movement.[4] She built and operated a radio station that sent intelligence on German troop movements to other parts of the resistance in southern Italy.[5]

Selected publications

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  • Madia, Giorgina. "Le forze elettromotrici nella teoria dinamica dell’elettromagnetismo." Il Nuovo Cimento (1924-1942) 4.1 (1927): 289-295.
  • Madia, Giorgina. "La Teoria Dinamica Dell’elettroma-Gnetismo Nei Riguardi delle Forze Ponderomotrici." Il Nuovo Cimento (1924-1942) 5.1 (1928): 108-113.[6]
  • Madia, Giorgina. "I trasformatori telefonici." Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici: Bologna from 3 to 10 September 1928. 1929.
  • Madia, Giorgina. "Le Zworykine system." Interciné, VIIe année, n ° 2, February 1935, p. 99-101.[7]
  • Madia, Giorgina. "Applicazione Della Teoria Di Cauer Ai Filtri a Scala Campbell-Zobel." (1940). Print.
  • Madia, Giorgina. Elettronica. Udine: Del Bianco, 1963. Print. The Italian textbook Elettronica.[8]
  • Madia, Giorgina. Fondamenti Fisico Matematici Della Teoria Dei Semiconduttori. Roma: Dets, 1967. Print.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Madia Giorgina: Scienza a due voci". scienzaa2voci.unibo.it. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  2. ^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, archived from the original on 2017-11-24, retrieved 2015-10-07.
  3. ^ Madìa, Giorgina (1928). "I trasformatori telefonici" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2015-10-26. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Slaughter, Jane (1997), Women and the Italian resistance, 1943-1945, Women and modern revolution series, Arden Press, p. 62, ISBN 9780912869131.
  5. ^ Alloisio, Mirella; Beltrami, Giuliana Gadola (2003), Volontarie della libertà, Saggi e documenti (in Italian), Lampi di stampa, p. 71, ISBN 9788848801881.
  6. ^ "Il Nuovo Cimento (1924-1942), Volume 5, Issue 1 - Springer". link.springer.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  7. ^ "Tube de caméra de télévision (AP-14-2908) - Collection - Catalogue des appareils cinématographiques - La Cinémathèque française". www.cinematheque.fr. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  8. ^ Italian Books and Periodicals, vol. 6, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Information and Copyright Services, 1963, p. 501.

External sources

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  • Beltrami, Giuliana, and Alloisio, Mirella. Volontarie della libertà: 8 settembre 1943-25 aprile 1945. Italy, Mazzota, 1981. (Volunteers of freedom September 8, 1943 - April 25, 1945)