Tito Arecchi

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Tito Arecchi (11 December 1933 – 15 February 2021) was an Italian physicist who made significant contributions to laser physics and quantum optics.

Biography[]

Arecchi graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1957 with a degree in electrical engineering. He became an assistant professor at the University of Milan in 1963 and a physics professor at the University of Pavia in 1970. From 1975 until his retirement in 2008, he was a physics professor at the University of Florence. He also served as a guest professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1969 to 1970 and was invited to IBM research laboratories in San Jose and Zurich.

Arecchi was President of the  [it] from 1975 to 2000.^[1] In 1995, he was awarded the Max Born Award by The Optical Society.^[2] In 2006, the Italian Physical Society awarded he and Giorgio Careri the Premio Enrico Fermi for their contributions to the study of radiation and matter.

Arecchi died from a fall in Florence on 15 February 2021 at the age of 87.^[3][4]

Articles[]

• Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics (1987)
• I simboli e la realtà (1990)
• Optical chaos (selected papers on) (1994)
• Lexicon of Complexity (1996)
• Determinismo e Complessità (2000)
• Caos e Complessità nel Vivente (2004)
• Coerenza, Complessità, Creatività (2007)

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