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Mario Boella
was born in Genoa on 31st January 1905. Boella attended classic studies and moved to Turin where he attended the Application School for Engineers (1922-27). In October 1927 he graduated in Industrial Engineering - a subsection of Electrotechniques - and the same year he passed the State exam.
In 1929 Boella entered the Iert (Electrotechnic and Radiotelegraphic Institute of the Navy) at the Navy Academy of Leghorn, settled in 1916 by
Giancarlo Vallauri and a large pole of attraction for young people interested in Radio communications.
Between 1930 and 1960 his experimental researches gave significant conquests in the field of Radiotechniques and Metrology of time. In 1933 Boella got the teaching as a free (non permanent) teacher in Radiocomms, and in 1948 he won the chair of Electrical Communications at the Politecnico di Torino.
The National Council for Researches entrusted him in 1949 with the management of the new Study Centre for the Television that he had kept for several years, in close contact with the Ministry of Mail and Telecomms, Rai and Anie (National Association of Electrical and Electrotechnical Industries).
Thanks to the unanimous opinion by the faculty of Engineering, Boella asked and achieved to be moved to the new Chair of Electromagnetic Fields and Circuits (1962), connecting this activity to the one made at the CNR Study Centre of Propagation and Antennas (Cespa), he had settled in 1958 and led by him up to 1975.
In all these years Boella had been director and professor in the Refreshing course of Electrotechniques and Telecommunications for a long time, the school that up to 1962 replaced the degree in Electronic Engineering. He was a member of Aei (Italian Electronic Association) since 1928, editor of "Alta Frequenza" (High Frequency) since its foundation date (1932) and managing director in the Section of Turin in 3-year terms 1947-1949, 1953-55 and 1964-66. He died on 16th February in 1989 at Loranzč Canavese (Turin).
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