Carlotta Longo

{{Short description|Italian mathematical physicist}}

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Carlotta Longo (27 June 1895 – after 1959){{cite web|url=http://scienzaa2voci.unibo.it/biografie/894-longo-carlotta|title=Longo Carlotta|work=Scienza a due voci|language=it}} born Carlotta Bresolin, was an Italian mathematical physicist who wrote a doctoral dissertation in 1918 related to general relativity,{{mathgenealogy|id=180552}} and then became a high school teacher in Rome. Longo's thesis, advised by Tullio Levi-Civita,{{Cite journal|last=Maltese|first=Giulio|date=2000|title=The Late Entrance of Relativity into Italian Scientific Community (1906-1930)|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27757848|journal=Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences|volume=31|issue=1|pages=125–173|doi=10.2307/27757848|jstor=27757848 |issn=0890-9997}} presented what Ludwik Silberstein called a "geometrically elegant investigation" of electrostatics in general relativity.{{Cite journal|last=Silberstein|first=L.|date=January 1920|title=Italian Papers on Relativity|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=104|issue=2621|pages=552|doi=10.1038/104552a0|issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free}}

Her second marriage was to the Afro-Italian actor Lodovico Longo, who played a minor character in the film Harlem.{{cite book|first1=Luca|last1=Martera|authorlink1=|title=Harlem. Il film più censurato di sempre|url=|language =Italian

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