Piero Angela
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| Piero Angela | |
 Piero Angela in 1985
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| Born | December 22, 1928 Turin, Italy |
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| Nationality |  Italian |
| Occupation | Journalist Scientific popularizer Pianist |
| Children | Alberto Angela |
Piero Angela (Turin, 22 December 1928) is a journalist, scientific popularizer and Italian pianist.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Music
Son of the physician and Turinese antifascist Carlo Angela, to the seven year-old age it began to take private lessons of piano and, more before, it began to develop his interest for the music jazz. To twenty, in the 1948, with the name of Piero Angela it produced him in various jam session in the jazz-club. In the same year he was noticed by the entrepreneur Sergio Bernardini, that invited him/it to play in the inaugural evening of the Capannina of Viareggio. In the first ones Years 1950 it formed - together with the batterist Franco Mondini - a musical trio, in which launchings were alternated contrabbassist. To the tris artists of call were added what often for instance Ninì Rosso, Franco Pisano and the ex cornetist of Duke Ellington, Rex Stewart. In the meantime assumed in RAI, in the 1952 it stopped the musical activity professionistica to devote himself to the journalism.
[edit] Journalism
The first charge in the corporate body radiotelevisivo of State was as reporter and collaborator of the Giornale Radio; with the advent of the television (1954) Angela passed to the Newscast, for which was corresponding, first from Paris, then from Bruxelles, from the 1955 to the 1968. Together to Andrea Barbato it was the conductor of the 13:30 National Newscast first edition and, in the 1976, it was the first conductor of the TG2. Influenced by the lesson documentary of Roberto Rossellini, in the 1968 Piero Angela realized a series of documentaries from the title Il futuro nello spazio, on the theme of the program Apollo (whose purpose was that to bring the first ones astronauties on her Moon). Did it begin therefore a long activity of scientific popularization, that brought him to produce numerous transmissions of information in the following years among which Destinazione Uomo (Destination Human - ten episodes), Da zero a tre anni (From zero to three - three episodes), Dove va il mondo? (Where the world goes - five episodes), Nel buio degli anni luce (In the dark of lightyears - eight episodes), Indagine sulla parapsicologia (Inquiring on parapsicology - five episodes), Nel cosmo alla ricerca della vita (In the cosmon seeking for life - five episodes).
[edit] Scientific popularization
At the end of the 1970s, Angela decided to entirely devote himself to the realization of programs of popularization: the first one, in 1981, was Quark, that was the first television broadcast of such kind aimed to a general public. The idea, still topical today, was innovative: they used all the technological means available and the resources of the television communication for the themes to be communicated by the average family: the documentaries of the BBC and of David Attenborough, cartoons of Bruno Bozzetto used for explaining the most difficult concepts, interviews with the experts with the clearest possible language in line with the complexity of the subjects, the explanations in studio. From the base program originated many different spin-off, some of which stil exist: naturalistic documentaries (Quark speciale and Il mondo di Quark), financial (Quark Economia) and political ( Quark Europa ). In 1984 the project Pillole di Quark was firstly aired. It consisted in short spots of thirty seconds about technical, medical, scientific, social and educational subjects. It was aired on Rai Uno. In the same year Piero Angela realized the first talk-show with finality of diversion popularization mixture scientific: evenings you are first live with the public, from the Italic Hole, with characters of the world of the culture, of the science, of the show and of the sport on the stage to interact with the stage. In the 1986 and in the 1987 it realized, from the Sport's hall of Turin in front of eight thousand spectators, two first evenings on Rai Uno on the problems of the climate: atmosphere and oceans, which followed three television series through that the new technologies of graphic representation exploited computer: a trip inside the human body (La Macchina meravigliosa, in eight episodes), in the prehistory (Il pianeta dei dinosauri, in four episodes), and in the space (Viaggio nel cosmo, in seven episodes). Such series, realize with the collaboration of his son Alberto, they were translated in english and sold in over forty Countries europeans, americans and asiatic (Arabic Countries and China included). Of the 1988 it was, also, Quark italiani, series of documentaries of nature, environment, exploration, world animal products and realized by Italian authors (among which the same Alberto Angela, that realized some documentaries in Africa). In the 1995 it was born Superquark, during which, the 4 June 1999, the two thousand episodes of the project were celebrated Quark (and relative filiations). Of that same year also him Speciali di Superquark, evenings monotematiche on you deduce of great social, psychological and scientific interest and the collaboration to the television program Domenica In... , in which Piero Angela was conductor of a space devoted to the culture. From the 2001, finally, Piero and Alberto Angela are authors of Ulisse, a program consisting of monographic episodes about historical and scientific subjects. Parallelly to the popular activity in television, Piero Angela has developed, and it still develops, publishing activity, always to contained informative. From long time it is administrator of the index book «Scienza e società» on the magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni; he has been, besides, administrator and supervisor of the monthly one Quark, from himself founded in the 2001 and subsequently loose in the 2006 for lack of funds, that, on the model of the homonym telecast, it treated scientific themes in way accessible to the public. Piero Angela is also author of over thirty books, many of which translated in English, German and Spanish, with a general circulation of over three million copies. In 1989 Piero Angela was the leading founder of CICAP (to which he still belongs), an association for the investigation of claims on the paranormal, created in order to promote critical thinking and the scientific method in the investigation of anomalous phenomena. During his long activity Piero Angela has received numerous recognitions in Italy and to the foreign countries, among which the Kalinga prize of the UNESCO for the worths in the popularization scientific, and numerous degrees honoris causa (currently eight). Despite has abandoned the musical activity professionistic in the 1952, Piero Angela has remained a student of the jazz, although only as dilettante: it is not infrequent, when a transmission from him conducted it touches matters somehow connected with the music, as for instance the acoustic phenomenons, to see to perform him/it him to the piano and to play together with known jazz players professionals.
[edit] Television programs
All the following programs have been transmitted by Raiuno.
- Il futuro nello spazio (1968)
- Destinazione uomo (1971)
- Da zero a tre anni
- Dove va il mondo?
- Nel buio degli anni luce
- Indagine sulla parapsicologia (1978)
- Nel cosmo alla ricerca della vita (1980)
- Quark (from the 1981), that it has produced a transmissions's whole family:
- La macchina meravigliosa (1990)
- Serata Oceano (1991)
- Il pianeta dei dinosauri (1993)
- Viaggio nel cosmo (1998)
[edit] Curiosity
- In the February 2006, to the eve of the elections politics the site of the Corriere della Sera churches to the readers, through a survey, what personality of the journalism would have preferred for moderating the imminent television debate among the two candidates premier, Romano Prodi and Silvio Berlusconi. Piero Angela, journalist for the most scientific, surprisingly won the survey surpassing a thick team of political journalists. Interviewed by the Corriere, Angela declared not to be interested to the charge. To moderate the two debates they were then Clemente Mimun and Bruno Vespa. [1]
- In his Turinese residence, it possesses a precious collection of Roman vases of imperial epoch and a complete skeleton of Compsognathus longipes.
[edit] References
- ^ Luca Gelmini. «I lettori hanno deciso: Angela moderatore» («The readers have decided: Angela moderator»), interview to Piero Angela from the Corriere della Sera on line, 15 February 2006].
