Corrado Lamberti
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Corrado Lamberti (6 May 1947 – 17 April 2020) was an Italian astrophysicist, science journalist and teacher. He was one of the most appreciated popularizers of astronomy in Italy, and along with Margherita Hack he headed the astronomy magazines L'Astronomia and Le Stelle.[1][2]
Lamberti, born in Lenno in 1947, graduated in Physics in 1972 at the University of Milan, in the same class as Giuseppe Occhialini, with a thesis on cosmic physics. During his university years, he also stood out for his political activism. He taught physics in many high schools in the Como area, and in 1979 he was the founder, along with Margherita Hack, of the magazine L'Astronomia, of which he was editor, deputy director and finally managing director until June 2002. In November 2002, again with Margherita Hack, he founded a new magazine for astronomical popularization, Le Stelle, of which he was director until March 2008. He contributed to the Italian edition of numerous books of scientific studies for Italian and international publishing houses.[3][4][5]
Lamberti returned to the limelight of political commitment, in his region, in 2008, when he was one of the founders of the association La cruna del lago, a non-partisan group that fights against the overbuilding of the coast of Lake Como. The association achieved considerable popularity in the summer of 2008, with a continuous presence in newspapers and local media, thanks to a counter-information campaign that led to the withdrawal of overbuilding initiatives on the promontory of Lavedo, near Villa Balbianello in Lenno.[6]
He died on 17 April 2020, aged 72, at the General Area Hospital Moriggia Pelascini of Gravedona, of COVID-19 during the pandemic in Italy.[7][8][9][10][11]
