Anna Maria Ciccone

Anna Maria Ciccone, or Mariannina Corradina Ciccone, was an Italian physicist.

From Sicily to Pisa Maria Anna or Mariannina Corradina Ciccone was born on 29 August 1892 (or 1891 according to different documents ) in Noto, Sicily, of Corrado, a rich trader, and Caterina Mirmina. She got her diploma from Regia Scuola Normale (which will later become known as Istituto Magistrale) in 1910.

The discovery and enhancement the physicist from Noto is really recent and has been promoted by Prof. Marco Piccolino and his research in Tuscany about Nazi massacres that occurred in 1944. During his research he found out about Mariannina Ciccone's resistance against the Nazis. Prof Corrado Spataro's study has contributed to shed light on the scientist who left Noto for Pisa's Normale and devoted her soul and body to spectroscopy and light studies. Spataro writes: "it was important, appropriate and satisfying (...). meeting and studying Mariannina Ciccone in 2015 which was the 50th anniversary of her death and dedicated by UN to the "light", whose most secret components she tried to understand through the use of her spectroscope."

Works Spettroscopia, GUF, Pisa, 1941. Lezioni di spettroscopia, F. Vallerini Editore, Pisa, 1947. Introduzione allo studio della fisica atomica e molecolare, F. Vallerini Editore, Pisa, 1953. Elementi di fisica per i licei scientifici, A. Signorelli, Roma, 1964.