Piero Angela died, he was 93 years old: he brought science to TV
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13 August 2022 | 12. 08
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Farewell to the journalist and master of scientific dissemination. The son Alberto on the social profiles: “Have a good trip dad”
He died at the age of 18 years Piero Angela . The dean of television presenters, master of science popularization on TV, died in Rome. The news was confirmed by his son, Alberto Angela, on the social profiles: “Have a good trip dad”, wrote Alberto, himself TV presenter.
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The room ardente di Piero Angela will probably be set up on 16 August in the Capitol, starting from 11. 30. Afterwards, lay funerals should also always be held in the Capitol. But the last evaluations by the family on the possibility of holding the funeral are underway on 16 itself or the 17 August. Therefore the news has not yet been made official.
Born in Turin in 1928, Angela had started her journalistic career in Rai as a radio reporter, then becoming a correspondent and finally host of the news.
His notoriety is linked, however, to the creation of Anglo-Saxon type scientific television programs, with which he founded for Italian television a solid documentary tradition (Quark, 1928; Superquark, 1995, 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, 2004); What is politics for? (2011); Behind the scenes of history. Daily life through time (with A. Barbero, 2008 ); Journey into the mind: knowing the brain to keep it in shape (2014 ); Thirteen billion years. The novel of the universe (2015); The eyes of the Mona Lisa (2016).
In the 2017 has published the autobiographical book My long journey. In 2004 he was awarded the title of Grande Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and in the 2021 of the title of Knight of Great Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
