Giacomo Luigi Ciamician
Inventor of Photochemistry Giacomo Luigi Ciamician was an Italian-Armenian chemist and senator. He was a pioneer in photochemistry and green chemistry. In 1910 he became the first man born in Trieste to be nominated Senator, in the XXIII Legislation of the Kingdom of Italy. Ciamician studied at Vienna and Giessen, where he received the Ph.D. in 1880. He […]
Giorgio Baglivi
Groundbreaking Anatomist Giorgio Baglivi was a renowned anatomist and physician in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Baglivi was born Giorgio Armeno in the Republic of Ragusa, part of modern-day Croatia. He took the last name of his adoptive father, Pietro Angelo Baglivi. Taking after Pietro Angelo, a physician, in the course of his […]
Cristoforo Armeno
Origin of Serendipity Cristoforo Armeno or Christopher the Armenian, born in Tabriz in the 16th century, was a translator of Persian. He is credited with the first translation from Persian into Italian of Peregrinaggio di tre giovani figliuoli del re di Serendippo (Travels and adventures of the three princes of Serendip), in its editio princeps […]
