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We provide a guide to Bologna, Italy, focusing particularly on sites of interest to physicists. Our first tour is in the city center; it begins in the Piazza Maggiore at the Palazzo d’Accursio, the Basilica di San Petronio, and the Archiginnasio (Old University) and then proceeds to the Two Towers and the Palazzo Poggi, which houses the Astronomical Observatory Museum and other important instrument and art collections; it concludes at the Physics Museum, Department of Physics and Astronomy. Our second tour again begins in the Piazza Maggiore but goes to sites beyond the city center where famous Bolognese physicists and other scientists were born, lived, and are buried. Finally, we point out important museums and other institutions on the outskirts of Bologna.
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The major art museums are the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, the Museo Civico Archeologico, the Museo Civico Medievale, the Raccolte d'Arte Civiche, the Museo di Palazzo d'Accursio, and the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna.
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We thank Roger H. Stuewer for his careful and knowledgeable editorial work on our paper. We also thank Silvio Bergia and Attilio Forino of the University of Bologna for their kind advice.
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Giorgio Dragoni is Professor of History of Physics at the University of Bologna. Ivana Stojanovic has a Masters degree in Molecular Biotechnology.
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Dragoni, G., Stojanovic, I. Physical Science in Bologna. Phys. Perspect. 15, 92–115 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-013-0108-2
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- Giovanni Battista Amici
- Laura Bassi
- Gilberto Bernardini
- Rita Brunetti
- Giosuè Carducci
- Gian Domenico Cassini
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Egnazio Danti
- Adriano Cavalieri Ducati
- Luigi Galvani
- Francesco Maria Grimaldi
- Marcello Malpighi
- Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli
- Pope Benedict XIV
- Pope Gregory XIII
- Pope Pius IX
- Giovanni Battista Guglielmini
- Ettore Majorana
- Quirino Majorana
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Macedonio Melloni
- Leopoldo Nobili
- Domenico Maria Novara
- Giovanni Pelagalli
- Giampietro Puppi
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli
- Augusto Righi
- Giorgio Valle
- Giuseppe Veratti
- Alessandro Volta
- Basilica di San Petronio
- Two Towers
- Archiginnasio
- University of Bologna
- Institute of Bologna
- Palazzo Poggi
- Astronomical Observatory Museum
- Physics Museum
- Museum of Industrial Heritage
- Pelagalli Museum
- Ducati Museum
- Northern Cross Radiotelescope
- Marconi Museum
- Villa Griffone
- Montecuccolino Nuclear Engineering Laboratory
- Genus Bononiae Museums in the City
- wireless telegraphy
- history of astronomy
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