This post is all
for a great woman, a single person who, with his intellect, his vivacity , his
mental acuity has given very, very much to science , but not only , even
ordinary people , not those of science ,. I'm
talking about Margherita Hack, world-renowned astrophysicist , but also known
for its secularism in Italy , his being always vegetarian , his being fond of
animals , for civil rights , for his environmentalism ( he used the bike up to nearly ninety years of age)Born June 12, 1922 , he lived his youth in Florence , then came the dark period of Italy, during the Fascist era , where he attended the gymnasium School and says she jumped maturity thanks to the war , then joined the faculty of letters before but the first lesson was bored and ran into the secretary to change course , he chose physics , matter who loved since high school . She was fortunate to have great teachers , last year went to visit the observatory of Arcetri .Scrive : - " it was thanks to these series of randomness that the stars went for the first time in my life. I've never been one of those girls that you melted of romance under the firmament , but in order to dodge the dusty abyss of bad books in which he wanted to drag prof. Tieri , I preferred to raise the nose in the air and give the opportunity for a science that until then had had no particular importance in my life : astronomy "
That's how he embarked on the road astronomical . Strictly for the record prof. Tresi was his teacher that he wanted her to do a thesis laboratory but not on old books of 1800 yars , but you obviously after a week " declined " the offer .
His scientific career stat is high quality , It was the first Italian woman to direct the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste for 23 years, worked in America, for NASA , ESA .
Of you I have always loved his mental acuity , his stubbornness , his sobriety on his way to speak Florentine , his ever present smile . I only regret not to have known anything, not even when she came to Milan in the presentation of one of his books. His books I read them all , some read multiple times , such as " my life by bike ."
This post I wrote a few months after his death, but remains an icon for me to follow, to be admired. Hello Margaret.
Rewrite some more or less famous quote :
• From the ethical point of view it is heartbreaking to think of what suffering the animals are subjected , real cars from meat, bred to gain weight quickly , to reproduce rapidly in crowded conditions , to meet the throat of the man who thinks the master of all other species , when in fact it is quite possible to live without meat, like myself , vegetarian since birth
• Walk me wrong, cycling vo ' better. It is a less strenuous. Until recently pedaled often , obtaining balance, desire to do and will
• The fault of Eve was that of wanting to learn , experiment , investigate on its own merits the laws that govern the universe , the earth, your body, to reject the teaching top-down , in a word Eva is the curiosity of science against the passive acceptance of the faith ...
• Astronomy taught us that we are not the center of the universe , as we have thought long and as someone wants us to think even today. We're just a tiny planet around a star very common. Ourselves, intelligent beings , we are the result of stellar evolution , we are made of matter of the stars
