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Dr. Roberto Mantovani

Academic Background
1986 Degree on physics at Modena University; dissertation title, "Giovanni Battista Amici and the progress of microscopy".
1987 Joined to the C.N.R.'s National Group of Physics History (still member).
1987-88 Lecturer on "History of Physics" at Bologna University in a Course for "Cultural operators" specialised in museum activities.
1987; 1988; 1989 Collaboration with the Institute of Physics and Bio-engineering (now Institute of Physics) of Urbino University in the field of industrial automation and applied research.
1988-89; 1989-90; 1990-91; 1992-93 Teaching on "Experimental Physics I" in the Faculty of Geology at Urbino University.
1989; 1990; 1991; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996 Joined with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics for the realization of the LVD (Large Volume Detector) experiment performed at the National Laboratories in "Gran Sasso".
1989-90; 1990-91; 1992-93; 1993-94; 1994-95; 1995-96; 1996-97; 1997-98 Teaching on "Laboratory Physics" in a Special School for Technicians of Biomedical Laboratory Analysis (this year transformed in short degree course) of Urbino University.
1991; 1993; 1996 Teaching on "History of scientific instruments in the 18th and 19th centuries" for a postgraduate specialization course in "Cataloguing and restoration techiques of technical equipment of the XVIII and XIX centuries" held at Urbino University.
1991-92 Academic Visitor in the Dip. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University (U.K.).
1992-93; 1993-94 Teaching on "logical and mathematical education" for a polivalent two year course organized by the Italian Ministry of Public Education.
1997 Visiting Scholar in the Dibner Institute for the History of Science, MIT (Cambridge), USA.
2001 Researcher at the "Gabinetto di Fisica" of Urbino University

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