<html><head><style id="outgoing-font-settings">#response_container_BBPPID{font-family: initial; font-size:initial; color: initial;}</style></head><body style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: initial; line-height: initial;"><div id="response_container_BBPPID" style="outline:none;" dir="auto" contenteditable="false"> <div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"> <br style="display:initial"></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Andrea et al</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">I am so shocked and so very sad to hear this. What sad news. He was wonderful. A great scientist and a great person. </div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Vicky</div> <div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"> <br style="display:initial"></div> <div id="blackberry_signature_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto"> <div id="_signaturePlaceholder_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto">Sent from my BlackBerry — the most secure mobile device — via the TELUS Network</div> </div></div><div id="_original_msg_header_BBPPID" dir="auto"> <table width="100%" style="border-spacing: 0px; display: table; outline: none;" contenteditable="false"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial;"> <div style="border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, "BB Alpha Sans", "Slate Pro"; font-size: 10pt;"> <div id="from"><b>From:</b> andrea.possenti@inaf.it</div><div id="sent"><b>Sent:</b> September 15, 2020 6:09 PM</div><div id="to"><b>To:</b> everyone@lists.pulsarastronomy.net</div><div id="subject"><b>Subject:</b> [Everyone] sad news</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <br> </div><!--start of _originalContent --><div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="background-image: initial; line-height: initial; outline: none;" contenteditable="false"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sorry to use this list to communicate sad news.</div><div><br></div><div>Last night, prof dr Nichi D'Amico suddenly and unexpectedly died at his home in Sardinia, not far from the site of the Radio Telescope, which he has been the maximum contributor to the construction of.</div><div><br></div><div>After having been one of the columns of pulsar research during the nineties and the first years of 2000,</div><div>he indeed devoted himself first to the development of the Cagliari Observatory and of the Sardinia Radio Telescope, and most recently to the remarkable growth of the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), which he became the President of on 2015 and (first case ever) was later confirmed for additional 4 years, till the end of 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>A great researcher, an extraordinary science manager and, above all, a friendly person endowed with an infinite passion for his work (first the pulsars, then the SRT, finally INAF) and with a great humanity with all his collaborators, which could be immediately appreciated when working side by side or discussing with him.</div><div><br></div><div> I've been very lucky (and many with me) to meet and then to work with him to fully experience all the above.<br></div><div><br></div><div>ciao Nichi,</div><div>Andrea<br></div><div><br></div></div>
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