Giorgina Madìa

Giorgina Madìa (born December 27, 1904 in Naples) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer, specializing in electrical communications. She worked at the National Research Council and later as a professor at the University of Bari.[1] She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 at Bologna and gave a talk I trasformatori telefonici.[2][3]

During World War II, she worked in a telephone office in Milan, where she joined the Italian resistance movement.[4] She built and operated a radio station that sent intelligence on German troop movements to other parts of the resistance in southern Italy.[5]

She is the author of the Italian textbook Elettronica (Electronics, Rome: Del Bianco, 1963).[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Madia Giorgina", Scienza a Due Voci (in Italian) (University of Bologna), retrieved 2015-10-07.
  2. ↑ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2015-10-07.
  3. ↑ Madìa, Giorgina (1928). "I trasformatori telefonici" (PDF).
  4. ↑ Slaughter, Jane (1997), Women and the Italian resistance, 1943-1945, Women and modern revolution series, Arden Press, p. 62, ISBN 9780912869131.
  5. ↑ Alloisio, Mirella; Beltrami, Giuliana Gadola (2003), Volontarie della libertà, Saggi e documenti (in Italian), Lampi di stampa, p. 71, ISBN 9788848801881.
  6. ↑ Italian Books and Periodicals 6, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Information and Copyright Services, 1963, p. 501.
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