HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM

Starting from 1955, the Chair of Experimental Physics was occupied by Prof. Giuseppe Frongia, up to the time of his death.In all probability it is owing to his far-sighted work that all the apparatuses and instruments of historical interest present in Cagliari have been conserved: first of all because of the attention and care that he devoted to them, keeping them in order in the large cabinets of the old Institute of Physics in the Via Ospedale; furthermore (but this is still to be verified), during the Second World War when the Institute of Physics was occupied by the homeless and the town was in the hands of the German occupying forces, he had them packed and taken, apparently to Sanluri, in a convoy of lorries of the Italian Army.

The author of this article is honoured to have begun his academic career as Prof. Frongia's assistant, and is grateful for the opportunity to mention him herein.

Guido Pegna