Draft:Daria Bocciarelli

Early Life and Career:

Born in Parma, Italy on March 6th, 1910. She went to college in Florence, Italy, where she obtained her bachelor's in physics and graduated with a thesis on the radioactivity of potassium. She then worked as an assistant in the physics cabinet of the University of Florence, where she trained her skills in cosmic rays.

Career and Accomplishments:

In 1937 she became assistant to the chair of experimental physics in Perugia, a year after she ended up taking a position in the physics laboratories in the Department of Institute in Rome. She then contributed to the first Italian particle accelerator, a 1000 keV neutron generator. During the next few years and after the war she continued to work on projects at the Institute of Health. This time focusing on electron microscopy. Ultracentrifugation and X-rays. One of Bocciarellis's largest projects, she primarily investigated weak radioactive substances in Arcetri, she worked with fellow young physicists Gilberto Bernardini, Giuseppe Occhialini, Giulio Racah, and Bruno Rossi. She also investigated the potassium-beta spectrum.

Worked with a group of physicists at the Institute of Physics at the University of Florence:  Enrico Fermi, Franco Rasetti, Enrico Persico, Bruno Rossi, Gilberto Bernardini, Daria Bocciarelli, Lorenzo Emo Capodilista, Giuseppe Occhialini and Giulio Racah, whom were engaged in the emerging fields of Quantum Mechanics and Cosmic Rays.

In 1958 she became the deputy head of the physics laboratories at the Institute of Health and continued her path up until the year later she gained the title of president of the Italian Society of Electron Microscopy.

She retired in 1975 and in 1987 she was awarded the “Domenico Marotta” prize for her work in medical physics. She died at her home in Rome on December 27, 2006.