Enrico Boggio Lera: a physicist in Catania between the 19th and the 20th centuries

Abstract

The physicist Enrico Boggio Lera, born in Piedmont, moved to Catania toward the end of the nineteenth century and greatly contributed to maintain alive the research in physics, reaching a relevant international fame. He was a superb teacher and served as vice president of the Gioenia Academy of Catania in the years between 1944 and 1954.