Giuseppe Occhialini in Milan in the sixties and beyond: His legacy for particle physics and his influence on young researchers and students

Abstract

I intend to deal with two topics connected with Giuseppe Occhialini —“Beppo”. The first concerns the last nuclear-emulsion research in Milan and, in the early 1960s, the way in which he urged and endorsed the part of the “Milan emulsion group” who had decided not to take part in the new Cosmic Physics research projects, to continue their research in Particle Physics with new experimental techniques. The second concerns Beppo’s relationship with young people, his activity as an educator in science, but more generally in Life, in my personal experience as assistant close to him from the end of the 1950s until he retired —and beyond, until his death in 1993.