| Famous Sardinians; This is a list of famous people born in the island of Sardinia | |
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| Antoni Sias | Jan 25 2014, 04:51 PM Post #71 |
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Gian Luigi Gessa![]() Gian Luigi Gessa (born in Cagliari, 1932) is a professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at the University of Cagliari, where he has led for a long time the Department of Neurosciences. He is the leader of the Italian group that studies drug addiction. He also directed the research groups of the National Research Council. He worked as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health by Bethesda (Maryland) led by Professor Bernard Brodie and Scripps Research Institute of La Jolla (California), before returning to Italy and becoming one of the most authoritative experts in neuropharmacological research. Under his leadership, the Department of Neuroscience of University of Cagliari was ranked twenty-third place in the world among research institutes in the field of Pharmacology (Xenobiotics, Current Contents, Life Sciences, 1993). The Neuropharmacology department of Cagliari was also recognized by the Ministry of University and Scientific Research as a "Center of Excellence" for research on the Neurobiology of Addiction. Professor Gessa is also head of the CICAP Sardinia and a member of the Scientific Committee of "Journal of Psychiatry" located at University of Rome "La Sapienza". He also served as president of the Italian Society of Pharmacology (SIF). He is currently professor emeritus of pharmacology at the University of Cagliari and an associate member of the Institute of Neurosciences of the National Research Council. He received the Camillo Golgi Award from Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for his research. In 2004, he decided to join politics, by standing with the list of Renato Soru Project Sardinia as a regional councilor, being elected with 4613 preferences. From June 2, 2006 he is Grand Officer of Order of Merit of the Republic. Over the last hundred years, governments of different nations have appointed committees to establish the harms of marijuana on consumers and society. The conclusions of the commission, beginning with the 1894 Indian cannabis on the latest Cannabis Ministries of Health in 2002 Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland, were that marijuana use is not such a serious problem to be in criminal cases the people who do use or possess for this purpose. — Gian Luigi Gessa, Papers of the SIF, Italian Society of Pharmacology p.10 Vol.6 Ed 2006 Works Author
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| caesium | Feb 25 2014, 02:37 AM Post #72 |
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Enrico Costa![]() Enrico Costa (born 1944 in Sassari, Sardinia) is a sardinian astrophysicist, known for studies of gamma ray bursts (GRBs). Costa's family moved in 1954 to Rome, where he spent the remainder of his childhood and adolescence and studied physics. For his PhD with Giulio Auriemma, he participated in rocket experiments with X-ray detectors at the IAS (Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale) in Rome. In 1976, he joined the IAS and worked on balloon experiments. Later he was involved in BeppoSAX, the Italian X-ray astronomy satellite (with Dutch participation, and ESA support), which operated from 1996 to 2003. Costa was in 1981 part of the team of Livio Scarsi, which proposed the construction of the satellite for X-ray detection. On the satellite was a Phoswich Detector System (PDS) used by Filippo Frontera for the discovery of gamma ray bursts (i.e., the PDS was a Gamma Ray Burst Monitor, GRBM). February 28, 1997 was the first time an X-ray afterglow associated with a GRB was observed after localization by SAX, followed shortly thereafter by the optical afterglow (observed by Herschel and Isaac Newton telescopes, La Palma). Two months later, another GRB was detected with subsequent observation in the radio range, thus directly demonstrating by the redshift that GRBs are of extragalactic origin. In 1999, he developed the X-ray detector for the Italian X-ray/gamma-ray satellites AGILE, which started in 2007. He also developed X-ray polarimeters. Enrico Costa is the author or co-author of a number of papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. Several are published in Science Magazine. Also, in 2011 he received with Gerald J. Fishman the Shaw Prize, an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong, it honours living "individuals who are currently active in their respective fields and who have recently achieved distinguished and significant advances, who have made outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research or applications, or who in other domains have achieved excellence. |
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| Dust Devil | Feb 25 2014, 05:20 PM Post #73 |
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A name sake personality from the same city of this astrophysicist exists, the writer Enrico Costa. |
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| caesium | Feb 26 2014, 12:23 AM Post #74 |
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Yes i know, i wanted to post also his biography, but i didn't find lot of infos about him in english written websites. |
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| caesium | Feb 26 2014, 12:40 AM Post #75 |
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Enrico Costa Enrico Costa (Sassari, april 1841 – Sassari, march 1909) was a sardinian writer, costumer, illustrator, music composer, bank clerk and historian. He is recognized as the main exponent of the sardinian historical novel, though not the first creator. His whole life was spent in the research and knowledge of Sardinian history and folklore. His main historiographic work is "Sassari" a series of encyclopedic volumes dedicated to the ancient and contemporary history of his home town, while his most famous novel is the "Muto di Gallura", translated also in foreigner languages, like german. Costa's style was influenced by italian writers like Alessandro Manzoni and the british Walter Scott. The David Rizio was a music opera who Enrico Costa presented in Milan, and realised together to his fellow citizen Luigi Canepa, a music composer. The noble prize in literature Grazia Deledda in one interview declared to consider herself a devotee of Enrico Costa. Main Works
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| Algueres | Mar 5 2014, 06:27 PM Post #76 |
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Giovanni Carta Giovanni Carta, also known as John Carta (Alghero, January 7, 1946 – Sacramento, September 29, 1990), was a sardinian airman and parachutist. He was nicknamed Birdman. Carta was a Base Jumping pioneer and a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he piloted Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters on rescue missions. He was decorated with the War Cross for Military Valor. He was the first man to parachute onto the roof of the World Trade Center in New York in 1981; and launched himself from a tower of the Verrazano Bridge in 1982. In 1986, using a portable ramp, he jumped from the Foresthill Bridge in California on a motorcycle then deployed his parachute, leaving the motorcycle to smash to pieces in the canyon below. He jumped from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, in Italy, and from George Washington Bridge in New York, in 1987. He experimented with bat wings in many of his parachute launches. On August 16, 1990, he broke his back after his parachute failed during a jump from an office building in Oakland; he was charged with trespass, the charge was dropped due to his injuries. Carta was killed on September 29, 1990, when the Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon in which he was a passenger crashed during an impromptu aaerobatics display. |
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| Pinkulilly | Mar 30 2014, 03:32 AM Post #77 |
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Maria Lai![]() Maria Lai (Ulassai, 1919 - Cardedu, 2013) was a contemporary artist from Sardinia. After the Academic years in Venice she went to Rome beginning her course with a long series of exhibition and performances all around Italy. During the last years,in search of a place of her artistic researches, she came back to her own heritage, based in Ulassai,Sardinia, where she was born in 1919. Active in the national and international artistic scene, her language took from different inspiration like Novecento sculpture,conceptual and Land Art and Italian Arte Povera; her works are featured in important exhibition on contemporary Italian art, such as Italics. Her works were exhibited in several museums like Palazzo Grassi in Venice and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. |
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| caesium | Apr 4 2014, 11:46 PM Post #78 |
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Nicola Congiu![]() Nicola "Niko" Congiu (born in Sardinia, Italy) is a singer and performer. Nicola grew up knowing that he would become a performer. This self taught musician began his career singing on the bar circuits of Italy playing four to five hours every night. Performing on both guitar and piano, Niko’s voice spans over three octaves and easily handles current pop, rock and soul. Following the examples of his favorite musicians such as Tom Jones and Freddy Mercury, Niko was able to create an electrifying stage persona that engaged audiences of all ages. From his consistent touring and endless hours of performance Niko fashioned a strong following of his fellow Italians that soon ended up with packed rooms every night. Alongside of touring Niko helped build his reputation by participating in national singing competitions that were televised all across Italy. In 1997, Niko formed his own nine-piece orchestra and toured extensively throughout northern Italy. It was at one of these shows that Niko was discovered by notable director/producer, Steve Binder. (1968 Elvis Comeback Special). While on vacation in Italy with his wife, Binder stumbled upon a crowd of over 1,000 marveling at the performance of the devastatingly handsome chanteur. So impressed with Niko’s performance Binder returned the next night only to be even more blown away than the previous evening. It was then that he decided to bring Niko back to the United States and launch his international career. Immediately Binder set up a showcase for his music industry friends and contacts which, in turn, began the professional relationship between Niko and Live Nation. Everyone from Live Nation that attended became as ecstatic about Niko as Binder was. In a little over one year, Niko has made impressive strides and has been recognized by many of the industries finest producers and musicians. He has opened for Jewel with the Chicago Pops, opened for Celine Dion at the start of her “Taking Chances” world tour, sang at Carnegie Hall with Tony Bennett at the 25th Anniversary of the New York Pops, toured with Chicago and the Doobie Brothers to 19-cities in the U.S., and starred on New Year’s Eve at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. So begins Niko’s inevitably long and successful career in his quest to become an international star. |
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| Pearl | May 9 2014, 12:57 AM Post #79 |
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Elisa Bee![]() Elisa Bee, born as Elisa Biosa in Alghero, Sardinia, is a techno dj and producer of radiophonic programs. |
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| yoshimitsu | Jun 1 2014, 11:33 PM Post #80 |
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Salmo![]() Salmo, born Maurizio Pisciottu (born June 29, 1984), is a rapper and producer born in the Sardinian town of Olbia. Salmo recorded with Premeditazione and Dolo prior to making his own Under Skin in 2004. His first official album, however, was 2011's The Island Chainsaw Massacre, which was followed by Death U.S.B. in 2012 and Midnite in 2013. The latter would become Salmo's first number one album in Italy. Recorded while on tour in support of Midnite, Sony Music issued the live album S.A.L.M.O. Documentary in 2014. The rapper's fourth studio LP, Hellvisback, appeared in early 2016 and debuted atop the Italian album chart. It featured blink-182 drummer Travis Barker on two tracks. A versatile collaborator, he has also worked beside the likes of Skasico, Three Pigs Trip, and To Ed Gein. His 2016 album Hellvisback placed at the first place on the Italian hit parade. |
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A name sake personality from the same city of this astrophysicist exists, the writer Enrico Costa.






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