Dionigi Galletto

Dionigi Galletto
Born	(1932-01-26)26 January 1932 Monasterolo di Savigliano
Died	25 September 2011(2011-09-25) (aged 79) Torino
Nationality	Italian
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Turin
Alma mater	University of Padua
Doctoral advisor	Giuseppe Grioli
Doctoral students	Sergio Benenti Mauro Francaviglia

Dionigi Galletto (26 January 1932 – 25 September 2011) was an Italian mathematician and academician.

He was a mathematician involved in researches in the field of rigid-body mechanics, theory of finite deformations, mathematical theory of elasticity, history of mathematics and extragalactic celestial mechanics and cosmology.

He was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Turin, and he is considered to be the founder-reorganiser of the Mathematical physics school of Turin in the Post-Second World War period.^[1][2] Among his students were Sergio Benenti and Mauro Francaviglia.

Biography

He started his university studies in Rome as a student of Severi. His studies were interrupted by the military service which led him to Padua, where he graduated with honours in 1960 under Giuseppe Grioli’s guide with a thesis on the continuum theory with asymmetric stress.

In 1968, having applied for a chair, he was appointed full professor on trial of rational mechanics at the University of Palermo. In 1970 he moved to the University of Turin, even in this case as Full Professor on trial of Superior Mechanics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences and from the following year he became Full Professor of Mathematical Physics , position he held up to 2007, year he retired. Besides the course of Mathematical Physics Galletto held various courses relating to his area. In 2008 he was appointed Emeritus professor.

At the beginning of his scientific production, Galletto, still under Grioli’s influence, dealt with continua having asymmetric stress characteristics, but soon found his own autonomous thread with pioneering works that forerun the so called generalised continuum theory, marked, among other things by the characteristic that the stress tensor is no longer the Cauchy tensor (or similar), double symmetric tensor, but an asymmetric tensor that generalizes it, with further important structural peculiarities.

He was member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin since 1974 and its national resident member since 1980. He was also member of the National Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts Modena and corresponding member of the Lombard Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Since 1990 he was corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei of which he became national member.

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External links

• Dionigi Galletto at the Mathematics Genealogy Project