Abstract
Herewith are presented the contents of the ING (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica) historical archives, recently reorganized to preserve and make available to scholars documents concerning the scientific activity and management of the Institute. The documents date from 1945, when the Institute became an independent board after separating it from the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) to 1965. It is a decisive period for the ING, whichhad been founded in 1936 by Guglielmo Marconi, president of the CNR at the time and by the physicist Antonino Lo Surdo, who became its first director until his death in 1949. These valuable papers document how the ING rose from the war destruction, expanded its seismic monitoring network and developed experimental and theoretical research in all the main fields of the Earth physics.
Highlights
The reordering of the historical archives of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (ING, National Institute of Geophysics), promoted by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and recently completed in accordance with legislation enacted regarding the archives of public bodies – Legislative Decree October 29, 1999 n. 490 – was carried out to safeguard the acquired heritage of historical documents and, at the same time, render these documents more accessible
The ING was founded in 1936 as an institute of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, National Research Council) and the documents produced from this date until 1944 are considered to belong to the CNR and are stored in the Archivio Centrale dello Stato (ACS, Central Archives of the State)
Antonino Lo Surdo announced his own project draft in which he outlined an institute divided into five divisions, each specialized in a different area of geophysics: seismology, terrestrial and atmospheric electricity, atmospheric optics and radiation, meteorology and terrestrial magnetism
Summary
The reordering of the historical archives of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (ING, National Institute of Geophysics), promoted by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and recently completed in accordance with legislation enacted regarding the archives of public bodies – Legislative Decree October 29, 1999 n. 490 – was carried out to safeguard the acquired heritage of historical documents and, at the same time, render these documents more easily accessible.
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