page_title: Giuseppe Occhialini
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Giuseppe Occhialini / Honors
caption_attribution_description: Great Scientists - Giuseppe Occhialini
context_page_description: Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS was an Italian physicist, who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell. At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H. Wills Laboratory of the University of Bristol.
  The X-ray satellite SAX was named BeppoSAX in his honour after its launch in 1996.
context_section_description: The Department of Physics of University of Milan Bicocca, active since 1997, is named after him.
  The satellite SAX, the first Italian satellite for the study of gamma rays, was renamed BeppoSAX from his nickname "Beppo".
  An asteroid, 20081 Occhialini was named for him.
  In 1949 he received the National Prize of the President of the Republic.
  In 1979 he was awarded the Wolf Prize for physics.
  In 2004, Prof. Antonio Vitale, Ordinary Professor of Physics at the University of Bologna, created the "Foundation Giuseppe Occhialini" with its seat at Fossombrone, birth town of Giuseppe Occhialini. The Foundation has as its objective the popularization of physics in the superior schools, and is active above all in the province of Pesaro-Urbino, where every year there is held a course with the allocation of scholarships for the worthiest students.
  In 2007 the Italian Physical Society together with the Institute of Physics instituted the Occhialini Prize to honour his memory.
  On 22 June 2009 a Milan's square was named after him, that same square where the Institute of Physics was at the time he first became professor there. The Square sign was unveiled at a ceremony with the Deans of both State Milan's universities, Enrico Decleva and Marcello Fontanesi, Beppo's daughter Etra and Professor Guido Vegni, one of Beppo's pupils and successor in particle physics research.
caption: Giuseppe Occhialini on a 2007 Serbian stamp
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