Abstract
he term “towering figure” is, as with most clichs, overused.In the case of the late Ivano Bertini (6 December 1940–7 July2012; Figure 1), Italian—Florentine, to be precise—chemist itis, however, fully appropriate. Ivano, as he was known to all,was a physically imposing man with a booming voice. To us,Ivano seemed as someone one could easily imagine represent-ed by a massive marble statue, suitably clad in a toga or suitof armour, in the piazza of a Tuscan town. But to say thatIvano was a towering figure solely for superficial, physical rea-sons is far off the mark. In essence, Ivano was one of the crea-tors of the field of bioinorganic chemistry. As was evident evento non-Italians, his role in Italian science was massive, and hisrole in European science overall was enormous, especially inthe context of the current development of European, as op-posed to nationally based, science within the framework of the
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