Carlotta Longo Explained

Carlotta Longo (27 June 1895 – after 1959)^[1] born Carlotta Bresolin, was an Italian mathematical physicist who wrote a doctoral dissertation in 1918 related to general relativity, and then became a high school teacher in Rome.^[1] Longo's thesis, advised by Tullio Levi-Civita,^[2] presented what Ludwik Silberstein called a "geometrically elegant investigation" of electrostatics in general relativity.^[3]

Her second marriage was to the Afro-Italian actor Lodovico Longo, who played a minor character in the film Harlem.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Longo Carlotta. Scienza a due voci. it.
2. Maltese. Giulio. 2000. The Late Entrance of Relativity into Italian Scientific Community (1906-1930). Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. 31. 1. 125–173. 10.2307/27757848. 27757848 . 0890-9997.
3. Silberstein. L.. January 1920. Italian Papers on Relativity. Nature. en. 104. 2621. 552. 10.1038/104552a0. 0028-0836. free.
4. Book: Luca. Martera. Harlem. Il film più censurato di sempre. Italian. La nave di Teseo. 2021. 978-8834605011.
5. Web site: Carlo. Sacco. Un film da record, un libro, un italiano di colore, una vita incredibile finita a Città della Pieve. CorrierePievese. 2 May 2021. Italian.