Presidente emerito Classe di Scienze FMN, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, e Professore emerito di Chimica e Biochimica, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
Biol Direct. 2022 Jul 15;17(1):18. doi: 10.1186/s13062-022-00330-0.
"Can order spring from Chaos?" is the title of an extensive Report on Italian science published by NATURE on 12 May 1983 and written by Robert Walgate, the Chief European Correspondent. It is a twenty pages complete paper touching all aspects of the struggle of Italian scientists to work in the "curious amalgam of ingenuity and muddle, a reflection of the political system". (Nature, 1983; 303: 109-128). To read it after four decades is interesting but somewhat depressing since the main problems unfolded in the paper have not been solved, starting with the largely insufficient support of fundamental curiosity driven research. At page 114 you could find a item called: ITALY's TOP SCIENTISTS: Four in the top one thousand. The Author refers to the data reported by the ISI (Institute of Scientific Information) that took two years to scan 3,000 major journals over the period 1965-78 and covered 5 millions articles and 67 millions references. The four top Italian scientists working in Italy were: Eraldo Antonini (3127 citations), Enrico Clementi (4001), Silvio Garattini (2833), and Giorgio Giacomelli (2483); 3 out of four were 52 years old, and one 55. Antonini did not see the Report since he passed away on March 18, 1983. However the information leaked before the publication of Nature because I remember the Messaggero of Rome reporting a whole page with the ranking of the four Italians, and even a picture of Eraldo. The students of the first year Medical course, his Class, welcomed the Professor with a standing ovation. After a short time the Board of the SIB (Società Italiana di Biochimica) casted a unanimous vote in favour of the motion of President Noris Siliprandi to begin the annual Congress with an Antonini Lecture, forever. As reported below, the tradition began immediately at the Congress in Saint-Vicent, Italy, and is continuing. In this paper I report an account of the Eraldo Antonini Lectures that I attended over the years and until September 2019, a few months before the pandemics lock down.
“混沌中能否孕育出春天？”这是 1983 年 5 月 12 日《自然》杂志刊登的一篇关于意大利科学的长篇报道的标题，该报道由欧洲首席通讯员罗伯特·沃尔盖特撰写。这是一篇长达 20 页的完整论文，涵盖了意大利科学家在“充满创造力和混乱的奇特混合物中工作的各个方面，这反映了政治制度”的斗争。（《自然》，1983 年；303:109-128）。四十年后再读这篇文章，虽然有些令人沮丧，但还是很有意思，因为文中提出的主要问题仍未得到解决，从根本上缺乏对好奇心驱动的研究的支持开始。在第 114 页，你会发现一个名为“意大利顶尖科学家：前 1000 名中有 4 人”的条目。作者提到了 ISI（科学信息研究所）报告的数据，该数据耗时两年扫描了 1965 年至 1978 年间的 3000 种主要期刊，涵盖了 500 万篇文章和 6700 万条参考文献。在意大利工作的意大利顶尖科学家有 4 位：Eraldo Antonini（3127 次引用）、Enrico Clementi（4001 次）、Silvio Garattini（2833 次）和 Giorgio Giacomelli（2483 次）；其中 3 位年龄都在 52 岁，1 位 55 岁。Antonini 没有看到这篇报道，因为他于 1983 年 3 月 18 日去世。然而，由于 Nature 杂志的报道，该信息在发布前就已经泄露，我记得《罗马信使报》用一整版报道了这四位意大利人的排名，甚至还有 Eraldo 的照片。他第一年医学生的同学为这位教授举行了长时间的起立鼓掌。不久之后，SIB（意大利生物化学学会）理事会一致投票赞成主席 Noris Siliprandi 的动议，在圣文生的年度大会上，开始举行永远的 Antonini 讲座。正如下面所报道的，这一传统从那时起就在意大利圣文森特的大会上开始了，并一直延续至今。在本文中，我将讲述多年来我参加的 Eraldo Antonini 讲座的情况，直到 2019 年 9 月，也就是大流行封锁前的几个月。
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