Angela Bracco
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Angela Bracco (born 1955) is an Italian experimental nuclear physicist whose research has applied gamma spectroscopy to the study of nuclear structure.[1] She is a professor of physics at the University of Milan,[2] the president of the Italian Physical Society, and the president of the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, a physics museum and research center in Rome.[1]
Bracco was born in 1955 in Lecco. She earned a laurea (then the equivalent of a master's degree) in 1979 from the University of Milan, and completed a Ph.D. in 1983 in Canada, through a joint program of the TRIUMF national particle accelerator center in Vancouver and the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.[3]
She returned to the University of Milan as an assistant professor in 1983. She was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and full professor in 2002.[3] She became president of the Italian Physical Society in 2000,[1] and president of the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi in 2024.[4]
