Giuseppe Arcidiacono

{{Short description|Italian physicist}}

Giuseppe Arcidiacono (1927–1998) was an Italian physicist, born in Acireale.{{Cite web|url=http://www.macrolibrarsi.it/autori/_giuseppe_arcidiacono.php|title=Giuseppe Arcidiacono|website=Macrolibrarsi|access-date=2016-05-18}} He earned his degree in physics at the University of Catania in 1951.{{cite web |last1=Licata |first1=Ignazio |last2=Chiatti |first2=Leonardo |last3=Benedetto |first3=Elmo |title=De Sitter Projective Relativity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ay9XDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 |publisher=Springer |access-date=19 November 2022 |language=en |date=13 March 2017}}

Arcidiacono was mathematician Luigi Fantappiè's main disciple. Together they worked on what they called projective relativity at the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica in Rome.{{cite book|author=Felicita Scapini|title=La logica dell'evoluzione dei viventi: spunti di riflessione : atti del XII Convegno del Gruppo italiano di biologia evoluzionistica, Firenze, 18-21 febbraio 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8r51deppw0oC&pg=PT71|year=2005|publisher=Firenze University Press|isbn=978-88-8453-369-2|page=71}}

In 1958 Arcidiacono won a scholarship to the Istituto H. Poincaré in Paris. He won the mathematics prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.{{cite book|author=Rocco Vittorio Macrì|title=La realtà del tempo e la ragnatela di Einstein: I passi falsi di un genio contro la Time Reality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WiWBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22|date=2015-03-24|publisher=Youcanprint Self-Publishing|isbn=978-88-911-8277-7|page=22}} From 1969 until his death in 1998 he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Perugia.