Zaira Ollano

Zaira Ollano (1904–1997) was an Italian physicist, researcher and professor. She investigated physics and nuclear physics, including the radiation absorption properties of beryllium.

Life and work Ollano was born in Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, Italy, on 4 March 1904, to Francesco and Felicina Statzu (or Stazu).

Cagliari She graduated in physics at the University of Cagliari in 1926, determining the order of magnitude of the intramolecular electric field in didymium compounds.

Zaira Ollano died in Pavia on 2 March 1997.

Select publications Among her 45 academic publications, the following notable works were authored by Ollano alone or for which she was the first author.

Über den spektroskopischen Nachweis der Existenz des Hydroxoniumions (H 3 O + ). Ramaneffekt von Überchlorsäure und Perchloraten, in Zeitschrift für Physik, LXXVII (1932), pp. 818–822 Secondary emission from elements bombarded with neutrons, in Nature, CXXXIV (1934), p. 735 Some observations on discharges caused by small and large energy quanta in Geiger and Müller counters, in Renderings of the seminary of the Faculty of Sciences of Cagliari, V (1935), pp. 31–37 Activation of some elements with slow neutrons, ibid., pp. 38–41 The production of photoneutrons from a source at Rag + Be, in Nuovo Cimento, ns, XV (1938), pp. 541–550 Excess of neutrons from a source a (Raa + Be) surrounded by beryllium, ibid., pp. 604–608 The conversion beta rays of the transition between the two isomeric states of neutron-activated rhodium, in Ricerca Scientici, XI (1940), 1-2, pp. 568–571 In memory of Rita Brunetti, publ. in Nuovo Cimento, year XIX, n.8, 1942, pages 213-229 Emission of neutrons and protons from Ne22 by the bombardment of α-particles, with RR Roy, in Nuovo Cimento, s. 9, VIII (1951), pp. 77–81