Riccardo Levi-Setti, Prof. Emeritus and pioneering physicist, 1927 to 2018

November 15, 2018

Riccardo Levi-Setti holds a fossil.

"Prof. Emeritus Riccardo Levi-Setti, a pioneering physicist and Holocaust survivor whose wide-ranging interests spanned cosmic rays to microscopy to trilobite fossils, died Nov. 8 in Chicago at age 91.

Referred to as a “Renaissance man” by his colleagues, Levi-Setti was active in exploring subatomic particles called strange quarks before pioneering new techniques in taking scientific images that revealed details about everything from superconductors to bones and kidneys."

 

Read the full obituary via UChicago News.