Ignazio Ciufolini

Ignazio Ciufolini (born 1951) is an Italian physicist active in the field of gravitational physics and general relativity.

Biography

Ignazio Ciufolini graduated magna cum laude in 1980 at Sapienza University of Rome, and received a PhD in Physics in 1984 at the University of Texas at Austin.[1]

From 1982 to 1988 he worked at University of Texas at Austin as a teaching assistant, lecturer and research associate. He is now an Associate Professor of General Physics at University of Salento (Italy),[2] tenured since 1999, and a member of Centro Fermi, Rome.[3] He collaborated with John Archibald Wheeler in 1995 to write Gravitation and Inertia,[4] for which they won the PROSE Award for the best professional and scholar book in physics and astronomy.[5] He works mainly in the field of General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, proposing a method to measure the effects of gravitomagnetism using the data from the laser ranged satellites LAGEOS and LAGEOS-2.[6][7][8] He was featured on the cover of the September 6, 2007 issue of Nature, dedicated to his review paper on Dragging of Inertial Frames and General Relativity.[6] He is the Principal Investigator for the Italian Space Agency (ASI) of the Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES) mission, a space mission aimed to improve the accuracy of the measurement of frame-dragging.

In 2010 he won the Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize, jointly awarded by the Italian Physical Society and the Institute of Physics.[9]

He has been accused of publishing papers on the scientific pre-print archive arXiv.org under pseudonyms, such as G. Felici,[10] and G. Forst[11] which is a violation of the arXiv terms.[12][13][14] He sued the italian physicist Lorenzo Iorio twice for defamation,[15] but Iorio was acquitted of these charges in both trials.[16][17]

References
  1. Clippard, Lee (20 February 2012). "UT Researchers Send Experimental Satellite into Space". The Alcalde. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  2. "Ignazio Ciufolini personal card" (in Italian). Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  3. "Ignazio Ciufolini personal page on Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi web site". Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  4. Ignazio Ciufolini and John Archibald Wheeler. Gravitation and Inertia. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey (1995). ISBN 0-691-03323-4.
  5. "AAP PROSE Awards 1995 Winners".
  6. Ciufolini, I. (6 September 2007). "Dragging of inertial frames". Nature. 449 (7158): 41–47. Bibcode:2007Natur.449...41C. doi:10.1038/nature06071. PMID 17805287.
  7. Ciufolini, I. (1986). "Measurement of the Lense-Thirring drag on high-altitude, laser-ranged artificial satellites". Physical Review Letters. 56 (4): 278–281. Bibcode:1986PhRvL..56..278C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.278. PMID 10033146.
  8. Ciufolini, I.; Pavlis, E. C. (2004). "A confirmation of the general relativistic prediction of the Lense–Thirring effect". Nature. 431 (7011): 958–960. Bibcode:2004Natur.431..958C. doi:10.1038/nature03007. PMID 15496915.
  9. "Occhialini medal recipients". iop.org. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  10. Felici, G. (2007). "The meaning of systematic errors, a comment to Reply to On the Systematic Errors in the Detection of the Lense-Thirring Effect with a Mars Orbiter, by Lorenzo Iorio". CERN Document Server. arXiv:gr-qc/0703020. Bibcode:2007gr.qc.....3020F. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  11. Forst, G. (2007). "A critical analysis of the GP-B mission. I: on the impossibility of a reliable measurement of the gravitomagnetic precession of the GP-B gyroscopes". CERN Document Server. arXiv:0712.3934. Bibcode:2007arXiv0712.3934F. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  12. Retraction Watch (3 June 2014). "Journal retracts letter accusing physicist of using fake names to criticize papers". Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  13. Retraction Watch (16 June 2014). "Retraction of letter alleging sock puppetry now cites "legal reasons"". Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  14. Neuroskeptic (10 May 2014). "Science Pseudonyms vs Science Sockpuppets". Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  15. Retraction Watch (13 January 2015). "Spat between physicists hits Italian courts for the second time". Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  16. Lorenzo Iorio (2 June 2019). "Decree of acquittal from the accusation of defamation in the trial brought against me by Ignazio Ciufolini in 2011 for the blog "20centesimi" case". doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.35462.22084. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  17. Lorenzo Iorio (13 September 2019). "Decree of acquittal from the accusation of defamation in the trial brought against me by Ignazio Ciufolini in 20104 for the case of the pseudonyms Forst and Felici he used on arXiv". Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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