- 14 March 1945: Born in
Noceto,
province of Parma, Italy.
- November 1963 - October 1967: Student of Physics at the
University of Pisa and at
the Scuola Normale Superiore,
Pisa.
- 30 October 1967: Laurea (~ Master Degree) in Physics
from the University of Pisa, with a thesis on the Birefringence
in the Excited States of Aligned Mercury. Supervisor: Prof. Adriano
Gozzini.
- February 1968: Four-year fellowship of the Italian Ministry of
Education at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Research work on
the magnetic field dependence of the nuclear relaxation of optically
oriented 199Hg.
- March 1973: Assistant position at the Chair of Spectroscopy of
the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Pisa.
- 11 April 1973: Diploma di Perfezionamento in Fisica
(~ PhD)
at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. Thesis entitled Wall
Collision Effects on Hg Nuclear Relaxation. Supervisor: Prof.
Franco Strumia.
- 1973: Experimental and theoretical investigations on the
Bloch-Siegert effect, and, more in general, on radiofrequency
multiple quantum transitions in atomic vapors. Collaboration with
E. Arimondo.
- September 1976 - June 1978:
Alexander-von-Humboldt
fellowship at the
Institute of Physics of the Johannes-Gutenberg University,
Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany. Research group of Prof. Ernst
Wilhelm Otten.
- 1979: Realization, in collaboration with Nadia Ioli
and Franco Strumia, of the first waveguide
CO2 laser which successfully excited a
far-infrared molecular laser (CH3OH).
- 1980: Development of computer software for the assignment
of molecular absorption and laser-emission spectra.
- 1983: Associate professor at the
Department of Physics of the University of Pisa.
- 1994: First version of the "Ritz" computer program for the
assignment of Fourier-transform far-infrared absorption spectrum
of the methanol isotopologues.
- 1998: First version of the "Multimolecule Ritz" program.
application to cyanamide.
- 2000: "LaseRitz" program for the assignment of far-infrared
molecular laser emissions. Applications to methanol and hydrazine.
- 2005: First investigations on possible heuristic approaches
to the automated assignment of dense molecular spectra.
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