Commemoration of the Academicians Deceased from 1992 to 1994. Unknown - 1994

Vatican City:: Ex AEdibus Academicis, 1994., 1994. Series: Commentarii, Vol. III, No. 35, Plenary Session, October 25-29, 1994. 8vo. 64 pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Copy of TLS from Renato Dardozzi (1 p., 4/24/96) to "Excellency" offering him the book laid-in. Very good. ISBN: 8877610565 This work contains commemorations for Jerome Lejeune (1926-1994), William Wilson Morgan (1906-1994), Severo Ochoa (1905-1993), Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992), Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1897-1994), and Janos Szentagothai (1912-1994). Note: Renato Dardozzi (1922-2003) was an Italian electronic engineer who worked the state telecommunications company of Vatican State. At the age of 52, he became ordained as a priest, and soon became chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. For twenty years, he was one of the very few directors of the Secretary of State of the Holy See, the oldest and most important department of the Roman Curia, first with the Cardinal Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli then with his… Leer más