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Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo (2 October 1920 in Padua – 20 February 1984 in Padua) was an Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer at the University of Padua, Italy.
Professor Giuseppe ‘Bepi’ Colombo was a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination. His bald head and grey moustache of later years were a familiar sight in the corridors of both ESA and NASA.
14 Apr 2020 · Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo (1920-1984) was a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination, whose bald head and grey moustache were familiar in the corridors of both ESA and NASA.
17 Ogo 2021 · Giuseppe Colombo was an Italian rocket scientist born in 1920 in Padua . He studied Mathematics at the University of Pisa and eventually became a Professor of Applied Mechanics at the...
5 Sep 2019 · BepiColombo is named after Professor Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo (1920-1984) from the University of Padua, Italy, a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination. He was the first to see that an unsuspected resonance is responsible for Mercury's habit of rotating on its axis three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.
Giuseppe Colombo, better known under his nickname “Bepi,” was a mathematician, whose researches focused on celestial mechanics, the exploration of the Solar System, and space technology.
30 Mac 2020 · As NASA began to study a Mariner-Venus-Mercury mission, Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a distinguished Italian specialist in celestial mechanics who taught at Galileo's old university in Padua, put forward a proposal that had the potential to triple the scientific return from such a mission.
