biography: professor dr paolo favero (1926–)

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Biography Biography: Professor Dr Paolo Favero (1926±) Professor Paolo Favero was born on 5th November 1926 in a small village near Belluno, the `Pearl of the Pre-Alps', a town in the region of the Dolomites in North-Eastern Italy. After obtaining his high school diploma in 1944 in Belluno, in the same year he began attending the chemistry courses at the University of Padua, where he graduated by the end of 1949 with a thesis under the supervision of Professor L. Riccoboni on the polarographic properties of NO in accurately deoxygenated solutions. A few years later, he gradu- ated in physics also, with a thesis on the microwave spectrum of ammonia carried out at the Microwave Institute of the National Research Council in Florence under the direction of Professor A. Gozzini. In the beginning of 1950, he held different teaching jobs and became Assistant Professor in the group of Professor G. Semerano at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Padua University. In the period from 1950 to the end of 1957, he dedicated himself to introducing electronic techniques into polaro- graphy (at that time the major scienti®c activity of the group) producing, ®rst in Italy, experimental and theoretical results in single- and multi-pass oscillo- graphic polarography of importance in the future developments of modern electrochemistry. In 1955, he married Anna M. Mirri, who was also an eminent Professor in the ®eld of rotational spectroscopy. They worked together until her departure in 1979. His growing interest in microwave spectroscopy led him to a postdoctoral position in the group of W. Gordy at the Physics Department of Duke University (Durham, NC, USA) with the support of the USA National Academy of Sciences for 2 years. At the end of 1957 he, Anna, and little daughter Laura left Italy for the United States. The work at Duke was very pro®table both theoretically and experimentally so that upon his return to Padua he could organize a new research group dedicated to microwave spectro- scopy, the ®rst in Italy. The construction of a micro- wave millimetre spectrometer using the technique of frequency multiplication developed at Duke Univer- sity made possible the structural study of small mole- cules. An important contribution to the knowledge of the harmonic vibrational ®eld was made comple- menting the existing infrared data with the distortion constant data. In the early 60s, he became Libero Docente in Physical Chemistry and Molecular Spec- troscopy and at the end of 1963 he was appointed full Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bologna. By the end of 1965, many components of the group and all the spectroscopic equipments were again together in Bologna. Working with A.M. Mirri, A. Guarnieri, F. Scappini, D. Damiani, G. Cazzoli, Journal of Molecular Structure 612 (2002) 79±80 0022-2860/02/$ - see front matter q 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII: S0022-2860(02)00076-5 www.elsevier.com/locate/molstruc

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