Riccardo Levi-Setti

Riccardo Levi-Setti (July 11, 1927 – November 8, 2018 ) was an Italian emeritus professor of physics and paleontology at the University of Chicago and a Holocaust survivor.

Early life and education Riccardo was born in Milan in 1927 to Paolo and Gilda Levi, a decorated lieutenant colonel in the Italian army of World War I and a Venetian aristocrat.

Career Riccardo joined University of Chicago in 1956, upon invitation from Enrico Fermi.

Levi-Setti spent some time at CERN in 1963 as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow.

In 2011 he, along with Roger Hildebrand, participated in the ceremony of the opening of the Enrico Fermi time capsule.

In 1975 he wrote a book called Trilobites, which was reissued in 1993. In 2014 his third book, called The Trilobite Book: A Visual Journey, was published.

Death and legacy Riccardo had died from natural causes on November 8, 2018, after a brief stay at Montgomery Place, Chicago. Fellow of the American Physical Society Leonardo da Vinci Award Steinberg Award