Pasquale Sfameni

Pasquale Sfameni (30 October 1868, Torregrotta, Italy – 7 October 1955, Torregrotta, Italy) was an Italian physician and scientist.

Biography Born in Torregrotta in 1868 into a bourgeois family, he graduated from the University of Bologna in 1893 with a thesis on artificial and cadaveric alterations of the central and peripheral nervous system. He later moved to Pisa, where he pursued an academic career, becoming a student of Ermanno Pinzani in specialized studies in obstetrics from 1895 to 1905. He was also a member of the Italian Society for the Progress of Sciences and from 1947 to 1949, of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna. The foundation awards an international quinquennial prize and several annual scholarships.

Major contributions Pasquale Sfameni is internationally known for his research on pregnancy and childbirth, which led him, in 1922, to the publication of the theory on the Utero-Ovarian Revolution and the active dilation of the uterus. Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus Order of San Marino Commander of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise