Name Giorgina Madia | ||
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 Università degli studi di Napoli. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 at Bologna and gave a talk I trasformatori telefonici.
During World War II, she worked in a telephone office in Milan, where she joined the Italian resistance movement. She built and operated a radio station that sent intelligence on German troop movements to other parts of the resistance in southern Italy.
She is the author of the Italian textbook Elettronica (Electronics, Rome: Del Bianco, 1963).
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