Angela Bracco
Angela Bracco is an Italian experimental nuclear physicist whose research has applied gamma spectroscopy to the study of nuclear structure. She is a professor of physics at the University of Milan, the president of the Italian Physical Society, and the president of the, a physics museum and research center in Rome.
Education and career
Bracco was born in 1955 in Lecco. She earned a laurea 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.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. She became president of the Italian Physical Society in 2000, and president of the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi in 2024.