| LC control no. | n 92102438 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Levi-Setti, Riccardo |
| Variant(s) | Setti, Riccardo Levi- Levi, Riccardo Paolo, 1927-2018 |
| Birth date | 1927-07-11 |
| Death date | 2018-11-08 |
| Place of birth | Milan (Italy) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Physics Trilobites--Collection and preservation |
| Affiliation | University of Chicago |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists Collectors and collecting |
| Found in | His Trilobites, 1993: CIP t.p. (Riccardo Levi-Setti) LC data base 10-16-92 (hdg.: Levi-Setti, Riccardo) Washington post WWW site, viewed Nov. 21, 2018 (Riccardo Levi-Setti, an Italian-born Holocaust survivor who became a pathbreaking physicist at the University of Chicago, uncovering subatomic particles while traveling the world in search of trilobites, died Nov. 8 [2018] in Chicago. He was 91. Dr. Levi-Setti joined the University of Chicago in 1956 as a research associate. Amid his work at the University of Chicago, where he led the Enrico Fermi Institute for experimental physics from 1992 to 1998, Dr. Levi-Setti traveled across the Czech Republic, Wales, Newfoundland and Morocco to collect thousands of trilobite fossils. Noted trilobite researcher Richard Fortey wrote that Dr. Levi-Setti was "much more than the smitten amateur," publishing an influential paper in Nature regarding the "crystal eyes" of trilobites; discovering two new trilobite species; and helping general audiences understand the extinct animal with his 1975 book "Trilobites," which was republished in 1993. Riccardo Paolo Levi was born in Milan on July 11, 1927. Dr. Levi-Setti was named a full professor of physics at the University of Chicago in 1965 and retired as an emeritus professor in 1999. In 2014 he published “The Trilobite Book,” a full-color follow-up to his original guidebook) |
| Associated language | eng |
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