At the age of 93 Piero Angela leaves us, well-known journalist and dean of television presenters, master of science popularization on television. The news is also confirmed by his son Alberto Angela who wrote on social media "Have a good trip dad ". Born in Turin in 1928, Angela had started her journalistic career in Rai as a radio reporter, later becoming a correspondent and finally host of the news program.
Piero Angela
Its notoriety is linked to the production of Anglo-Saxon scientific popularization television programs. Thanks to them he founded a solid documentary tradition for Italian television with Quark, Superquark and numerous derivative programs. Among the numerous publications, always of a scientific-popular nature: In the cosmos in search of life (1980); The thinking machine (1983); Oceans (1991); The challenge of the century (2006); Why do we have to have more children (with L. Pinna, 2008); What is politics for? (2011).
Behind the scenes of history. Daily life through time (with A. Barbero, 2012); Journey into the mind: knowing the brain to keep it in shape (2014). Thirteen billion years. The romance of the universe (2015); The eyes of the Mona Lisa (2016). In 2017 you published the autobiographical book My long journey. In 2004 he received the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and in 2021 that of Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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