Abstract

ITALIAN geophysics lost one of its most notable leaders on June 7 with the death, at the age of sixty-nine, of Prof. Antonino Lo Surdo, founder and director of the National Institute of Geophysics at Rome. Born in Syracuse, he graduated in physics at Messina. The great Messina earthquake of 1908 robbed him of all his family, save a brother, a loss that cast a shadow of sadness over his whole later life, in which he contracted no further family ties. He taught and carried out rearch at Messina and, from 1919, at the University of Rome, where he held the chair of physics until his death ; he gave great attention to experimental demonstrations in his teaching.

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