Bruno Bertotti

Bruno Bertotti (born 1930) is an Italian physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Pavia. He was one of the last students of Erwin Schrödinger. Bruno Bertotti is well known for his contributions to general relativity — particularly the Bertotti-Robinson electrovacuum, an exact solution of the Einstein field equation. He has also obtained a more accurate measurement of the parameter gamma of the parameterized post-Newtonian formalism, with the Cassini radioscience experiment.[1] The PPN gamma parameter measures the curvature of space in metric theories of gravity and it is equal to one in general relativity.[2]

Bertotti was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1958-59.[3] In 2007 he was awarded the Italian Gold Medal of Merit in Science and Culture.[4] Among the last scholars in relativity from the University of Pavia, there are Alessandro Spallicci and Alberto Vecchio.

References

  1. ↑ Bertotti B.; Iess L.; Tortora P. (2003). "A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft". Nature. 425 (6956): 374–376. Bibcode:2003Natur.425..374B. doi:10.1038/nature01997. PMID 14508481.
  2. ↑ Bertotti, B.; Catenacci, R.; Dappiaggi, C. (2005). "Pseudospheres in geometry and physics: from Beltrami to De Sitter and beyond". arXiv:math.HO/0506395Freely accessible [math.HO].
  3. ↑ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
  4. ↑ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica italiana". Presidenza della Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 28 March 2016.


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