Remembering Professor Adelchi Fabrocini
Adelchi Fabrocini was born on August 27,1951
in Sepino (Campobasso) in the Molise region of Italy.
He completed his
University studies in Physics at the Institute of Physics of Pisa
University which was still housed in Piazza Torricelli where he
obtained his degree summa cum laude with a thesis on "Variational
calculations of bosonic systems possessing an infinite number of
particles".
In September 1977 he was associated to the Pisa section of teh Italina
National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
From September 1978 he was "Assistente incaricato" in the
Engineering Faculty of Pisa University, and he obtained tenure as
Research Associate in October 1981.
In 1985 he was awarded a prize by the Angelo della Riccia
Foundation for young research physics theoreticians.
From June 1985 until July 1987 he was Post Doctoral Research Associate
in the University of Urbana-Champaign in Illinois, and during July and
August 1989 he was Visiting Professor there.
In November 1992 he won a competition to become Associate Professor of
Nuclear Physics in the Science Faculty of Pisa University.
Between 1990 and 1993 he was responsible for the Pisa unit of the
MURST national project on the Physical Theory of the Nucleus and
Many-body Systems, and in 1994 he was nominated responsible for Italy
of a MURST program in a collaboration involving Pisa University and
the University of Barcelona (Spain).
He was head of the Italian MURST 1994 Integrated Action program
between the Pisa University and the University of Barcelona (Spain).
From December 1995 unitl February 1996 he was Visiting Scientist at
the CEBAF laboratory in the United States.
In 2000 he became Full Professor of Nuclear Physics in the Department
of Physics of Pisa University, and he subsequently achieved tenure.
From 2003 until 2005 he was the local coordinator of the Theoretical
Physics group of INFN.
He was extensively involved with teaching Physics I course of the
Engineering Faculty of Pisa University, and later on the course of
Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Nuclear Physics for the degree course
in Physics. As a University teacher ha interacted with a very large
number of students, alwyas establishing excellent relations with
them. His teaching activities were highly appreciated by all of his
students. He supervised numerous degrees theses. devoted mainly to
studying the description of many0body strongly interacting systems.
He was also examiner for a host of theses in the fileds of Theoreticl
and Condensed matter Physics.
His main scientific activity was devoted to research on the
microscopic behaviour of many-body strongly interacting nuclear
systems and on the development of thechniques for studying such
systems realistically. Much of that research work was dedicated to
applying the theory of correlated basis function (CBF) to nuclear and
neutronic matter and to doubly magic nuclei, both for the ground state
and for reaction processes, essentially inclusive, starting from
hamiltonians with two and three body realistic interaction
potentials.
Among the results obtained during this research activity we may mention:
- the derivation of a microscopic equation for nuclear matter and its
application for studying the diffusion of relativistic electron from heavy
nuclei and nuclear matter;
- the study of the inclusive longitudinal and transverse response
functions (electromagnetic and spin) for nuclear and neutron matter;
- the application of the CBF theory, with realistic potential, to the
study of the ground state of doubly magic nuclei;
- application and generalizationn of the methods developed for nuclear
systems to the study of liquid helium;
- application of the CBF theoty to the microscopic study of
Bose-Einstein condensates af alkaline atoms in harmonic traps.
His activity as organizer of Conferences and Workshops was also
notorious:
- ten editions of the "Convegno su problemi di Fisica Nucleare
Teorica" in Cortona;
- he was of the promotors of the Elba International Physics Center in Marciana
Marina, Elba island, where he organized several Workshops on
Electron-nucleus scattring and Two-nucleon emission reactions;
- "Workshop on MonteCarlo methods in Theoretical Physics",
that was held in the Elba International Physics Center;
- summer school on "Microscopic Quantum Many-Body Theories and
Applications", that was hosted by the Abdus Salam Center for
Theoretical Physics in Trieste.
He was member of the International Advisory Commitee for the Series of
the International Conferences on Recent Progress in Many-Body
Theories, very active in organizing activities to promote the
discipline of Quantum Many-Body Physics aming the young generations.
He participated as invited speaker in numerous conventions, workshops
and international schools, and gave many lectures and seminars in
Italian institutes and abroad.
He was frequently consulted as a referee by international Physics
journals, such as Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Journal of
Physics, Nuclear Physics, Physics Letters and Physical Review, etc.
He had numerous and profitable scientific collaborations with Italian
institutions (University of Lecce, SISSA, the Genoa and Rome I
sections of the INFN) and abroad (the Unubersity of Illinois, Basel,
Barcelona, Granada, Athens, Tempe, the Argonne National
Laboratories and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility).
We would again like to recall the enormous capacity of Adelchi
Fabrocini in contributing to the diverse teaching, scientific and
organisational activities generally required in the everyday life of
the Phyisics Department in the University of Pisa, combined with the
simplicity and cordiality always demonstrated in his relations with
other people.
His death will prove to be a serious loss for the University
of Pisa, and for the International Many-Body Physics community.
He will certainly be remebered with unbounded
gratitute and affection by all those who knew him and had the fortune
to have his friendship and collaboration.
On behalf of the members of the Pisa Theoretical Nuclear Physics group
and all the friends of Adelchi Fabrocini
Sergio Rosati, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università
di Pisa, Cortona 2006