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Died. Attilio Piccioni, 83, anti-Fascist co-founder of Italy's Christian Democrat Party, who resigned as Foreign Minister in 1954 when his jazz-pianist son was falsely implicated in a scandal involving sex, narcotics and the death of a party girl, Wilma Montesi; in Rome...
...action was brought in the California courts by Oreste Piccioni, a physics professor at the San Diego branch of the University of California who had visited Berkeley in the 1950s and discussed with Segrè and Chamberlain how the antiproton might be detected. Piccioni contends that he originated the complex detection system that was crucial to the experiment, and that Segre and Chamberlain initially agreed to let him participate in the work. Subsequently, he charges, they reneged on the agreement, used his system anyway, and then denied him proper credit when they got favorable results. Why had he stalled...
...Segrè and Chamberlain have remained silent, but several of their colleagues pointed out that both men acknowledged Piccioni's "very useful suggestions" in their original report and later cited his contributions in their Nobel lectures. In any case, whatever the merit of Piccioni's charges, many scientists agree that he has touched on an increasingly troublesome issue. In an era of big science, more often than not a major discovery is the work of many minds. Can the Nobel Committee properly single out one man-or even a few* -for the lion's share...
...duties of President, and the scramble was on for the succession with no clear winner in sight. Among the most likely: former Christian Dem crat Premier and center-left architect Amintore Fanfani; Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat, a Social Democrat strongly in favor of European unity; former Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni, now national president of the Christian Democrats...
...terrible suspicions which tormented public opinion nothing is left: no orgies, no white slavery, no boatloads of prostitutes, nothing." But before the Montesi affair could finally be left to history a new inquiry was in order: How satisfactory was a system of justice which forced Piero Piccioni to suffer three years of public humiliation and judicial jeopardy on the basis of gossip alone...