The two lines of research currently underway, and carried out in collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Enrico Fermi Centre in Rome, concern:
- Birth and development of nuclear physics in Italy in the 1930s, with particular reference to the research of Enrico Fermi (theory of beta decay, neutron-induced radioactivity and the effect of their slowing down) and Ettore Majorana (proton-neutron nuclear model, Majorana neutrino).
- Birth and development of cosmic ray physics in Italy, from Domenico Pacini's pioneering studies (first clues of a penetrating radiation from above) to the works of Bruno Rossi, Giuseppe Occhialini and Gilberto Bernardini on the nature of cosmic radiation.
![Page of Enrico Fermi's diary](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_x1_560px/public/page/diario-enrico-fermi-ricerca.jpg?itok=E9gBzVoM)
Page 19 of Enrico Fermi's first laboratory notebook where the discovery of radioactivity induced on Aluminium by neutron bombardment is documented (Biblioteca dell'Istituto Tecnico "Oscar D'Agostino", Avellino).