Salvatore Califano#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 272 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Salvatore Califano passed away January 21, 2021.
Positions Held
- Emeritus Professor of Molecular Spectroscopy at the University of Florence
- 2000 Visiting Professor, Max Planck Institut fÜr Quantenoptik, Garching, München
- 2000 Visiting Professor, Fachbereich Physik, University of Kaiserslautern
- 1999 Visiting Professor, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Freie Univ. Berlin
- 1994, Visiting Professor, Département des Recherches Physiques, University of Paris VI
- 1982 - 1985, Director of the Département des Recherches Physiques, University of Paris VI
- 1968 Visiting Professor, Département des Recherches Physiques, University of Paris VI
- 1967 National Science Foundation Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University
- 1958 - 1960, Research Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
- 1955 - 1956, Alexander von Humbold Fellow, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Freiburg
- 1953 Scholarship holder, Institute of Physics, University of Frankfurt
Fields of Scholarship
- Reticular dynamics of molecular crystals
- Molecular dynamics
- Molecular spectroscopy
- Ultra-fast spectroscopy
- Non linear spectroscopy
- Life times of phonons
- Non linear processes
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Member of the La Colombaria Academy
- Member of the Society of Letters, Sciences and Arts of Naples
- Honorary member of the Italian Chemical Society
- 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Prize
- 2000 Gold Medal of the University of Bologna
- 2001 Gold medal from the Ministry of Universities and Research
- 2002 Bonino Medal of S.I.C.
