11 Facts About Nello Carrara

Nello Carrara was an Italian physicist and founder of the Electromagnetic Wave Research Institute.

Nello Carrara researched X-rays and was a pioneer of radar, but is best known for coining the term "microwave".

Nello Carrara was born in Florence on 19 February 1900.

Nello Carrara graduated from high school in 1917, and after serving in the Army during World War I, entered the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 1918, where he studied physics.

Nello Carrara wrote his doctoral thesis on X-ray diffraction in 1921.

Nello Carrara taught physics at the University of Bari from 1945 to 1946, and the University of Pisa from 1947 to 1950.

Nello Carrara became Professor of Naval Electromagnetic Waves at the Higher Institute of Naples in 1954, and moved to the University of Florence in 1956.

Nello Carrara was Director of the Center of Microwave National Research Council.

Nello Carrara was a consultant in various industries and co-founder and later president of SMA-Segnalamento Marittimo ed Aereo, which manufactured naval, aerial and terrestrial radar equipment.

Nello Carrara was president of Selesmar, which specialised in commercial navigation radar and vice president of ISC, which provided space communications equipment.

Nello Carrara received numerous awards, including being made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.