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Italy

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Historian of Science. At present she is visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin, 2005/10). Her current work is the Role of Molecules in the Development of Quantum Mechanics, with a Special Regard for the Contribution of Michael Polanyi and Eugene Wigner. Her interest focuses on: philosophers' and scientists' observations and explanations of warmth and cold, the history and foundations of quantum physics and the selection rules, group theory and the emergence of quantum symmetry arguments. She has several research papers in history and philosophy of science, o.a.: 'Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Neapolitan magic and his humanistic meteorology' in 'Variantology 5. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies', edited by Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlüs (Cologne, 2011). (2011)