イタリアから悲しい報告

A sad news came from Italy: Professor Marco Ademollo of the University of Florence died on December 10 at the age of 86. Probably only physicists of my age still remember him. He played an important role in HEP theory in the 1960s and 70s.
His last original publications refer to the 1990s. In 2012 Professor Ademollo published a Chapter “Particle theory in the Sixties: from current algebra to the Veneziano amplitude” in the Cambridge University Press Volume “The Birth of String Theory”

Born in Florence in 1936, Ademollo graduated from the University of Florence in 1958, where he began his university career the following year. In 1976 he had become full professor of Theoretical Physics, mathematical models and methods; from 1978 to 1980 he was director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics and taught until 2009. His research activity began in the 60s collaborating with one of the founding fathers of modern Italian theoretical physics, Raoul Gatto, dedicating himself to the study of determination of the spins and that of the symmetry properties of elementary particles. Of notable relevance is a work by him with Gatto on the non-renormalization theorem.

Subsequently, from 1967 to 1969, Ademollo was a visiting Professor at the Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology at Harvard University, during these two years he collaborated, among others, with Gabriele Veneziano and Steven Weinberg on the bootstrap theory of the scattering matrix. These studies eventually led to string theory.

Back in Italy, Ademollo continued with the study of dual models and contributed to the formulation of the theory of supersymmetric relativistic strings. In recent years he had been involved in gravitational scattering at high energies.