Giorgina Madìa

{{Infobox person

| name = Giorgina Madìa

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|27 December 1904}}

| birth_place = Naples, Italy

| death_date = c. 1942

| nationality = Italian

| occupation = Physicist and electrical engineer

}}

Giorgina Madìa (born 27 December 1904 in Naples, Italy) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer, specializing in electrical communications, and a member of the Italian resistance during World War II.

Biography

Her parents were Ernesto and Olga Ferrari.{{Cite web|title=Madia Giorgina: Scienza a due voci|url=http://scienzaa2voci.unibo.it/biografie/1198-madia-giorgina|access-date=2020-06-22|website=scienzaa2voci.unibo.it}}

She worked at the National Research Council and later as a professor at the Università degli studi di Napoli. She was also a professor of physics at nautical institutes and in charge of electrical engineering in the University of Bari. Her principal area of expertise was in electromagnetism and communications. electric.

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 at Bologna, Italy, and gave a talk titled I trasformatori telefonici.{{citation|url=http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByLastname.php|title=ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897|publisher=International Mathematical Union|access-date=2015-10-07|archive-date=2017-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171124141541/http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByLastname.php|url-status=dead}}.{{cite journal|url=http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1928.6/Main/icm1928.6.0345.0356.ocr.pdf|author=Madìa, Giorgina|title=I trasformatori telefonici|year=1928|access-date=2015-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003234552/http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1928.6/Main/icm1928.6.0345.0356.ocr.pdf|archive-date=2016-10-03|url-status=dead}}

During World War II, she worked in a telephone office in Milan, where she joined the Italian resistance movement.{{citation|title=Women and the Italian resistance, 1943-1945|series=Women and modern revolution series|first=Jane|last=Slaughter|publisher=Arden Press|year=1997|isbn=9780912869131|page=62}}. She built and operated a radio station that sent intelligence on German troop movements to other parts of the resistance in southern Italy.{{citation|title=Volontarie della libertà|series=Saggi e documenti|first1=Mirella|last1=Alloisio|first2=Giuliana Gadola|last2=Beltrami|publisher=Lampi di stampa|year=2003|isbn=9788848801881|page=71|language=it|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06TSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71}}.

Selected publications

Madia, Giorgina. "Le forze elettromotrici nella teoria dinamica dell’elettromagnetismo." Il Nuovo Cimento (1924-1942) 4.1 (1927): 289–295.
Madia, Giorgina. "La Teoria Dinamica Dell’elettroma-Gnetismo Nei Riguardi delle Forze Ponderomotrici." Il Nuovo Cimento (1924-1942) 5.1 (1928): 108–113.{{Cite web|title=Il Nuovo Cimento (1924-1942), Volume 5, Issue 1 - Springer|url=https://link.springer.com/journal/40760/5/1|access-date=2020-06-22|website=link.springer.com|language=en}}
Madia, Giorgina. "I trasformatori telefonici." Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici: Bologna from 3 to 10 September 1928. 1929.
Madia, Giorgina. "Le Zworykine system." Interciné, VIIe année, n ° 2, February 1935, p. 99-101.{{Cite web|title=Tube de caméra de télévision (AP-14-2908) - Collection - Catalogue des appareils cinématographiques - La Cinémathèque française|url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/catalogues/appareils/collection/tube-de-camera-de-televisionap-14-2908.html|access-date=2020-06-22|website=www.cinematheque.fr}}
Madia, Giorgina. "Applicazione Della Teoria Di Cauer Ai Filtri a Scala Campbell-Zobel." (1940). Print.
Madia, Giorgina. Elettronica. Udine: Del Bianco, 1963. Print. The Italian textbook Elettronica.{{citation|title=Italian Books and Periodicals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TxXgAAAAMAAJ&q=%22giorgina+madia%22|volume=6|page=501|year=1963|publisher=Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Information and Copyright Services}}.
Madia, Giorgina. Fondamenti Fisico Matematici Della Teoria Dei Semiconduttori. Roma: Dets, 1967. Print.

References

External sources

Beltrami, Giuliana, and Alloisio, Mirella. Volontarie della libertà: 8 settembre 1943-25 aprile 1945. Italy, Mazzota, 1981. (Volunteers of freedom September 8, 1943 - April 25, 1945)

Category:1904 births

Category:20th-century Italian physicists

Category:20th-century Italian women scientists

Category:Italian women physicists

Category:Italian electrical engineers

Category:Italian women engineers

Category:Italian resistance movement members

Category:Engineers from Naples

Category:Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II

Category:1942 deaths

Category:Female resistance members of World War II