Giorgina Madìa

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

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.

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)


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