Background
Ciufolini, Ignazio was born on December 27, 1951 in Rome.
( Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory ...)
Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity--spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve--is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its consequences: the predicted existence of gravitomagnetism and the origin of inertia (local inertial frames) in Einstein's general relativity: inertia here arises from mass there. The authors explain the modern understanding of the link between gravitation and inertia in Einstein's theory, from the origin of inertia in some cosmological models of the universe, to the interpretation of the initial value formulation of Einstein's standard geometrodynamics; and from the devices and the methods used to determine the local inertial frames of reference, to the experiments used to detect and measure the "dragging of inertial frames of reference." In this book, Ciufolini and Wheeler emphasize present, past, and proposed tests of gravitational interaction, metric theories, and general relativity. They describe the numerous confirmations of the foundations of geometrodynamics and some proposed experiments, including space missions, to test some of its fundamental predictions--in particular gravitomagnetic field or "dragging of inertial frames" and gravitational waves.
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Ciufolini, Ignazio was born on December 27, 1951 in Rome.
Ignazio Ciufolini graduated magna cum laude in 1980 at Sapienza University of Rome and was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physics in 1984 at the University of Texas at Austin.
From 1982 to 1988 he worked at University of Texas at Austin as a teaching assistant, lecturer and research associate. He collaborated with John Archibald Wheeler, with whom in 1995 wrote the book Gravitation and Inertia. He works mainly in the field of General Relativity and Gravitational Physics.
He proposed also a method to measure the effects of gravitomagnetism using the data from the laser ranged satellites LAGEOS and LAGEOS-2.
Ignazio Ciufolini is the Principal Investigator for the Italian Space Agency (Applied Science International) of the Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES) mission, a space mission aimed to improve the accuracy of the measurement of frame-dragging.
( Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory ...)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Italian Society Gravitation (board directors since 1996), International Science Foundation (international physics award 2001).
Son of Giuseppe and Loreta (Fabi) C. Married Svetlana Lamintseva.