!!Alfonso Cavaliere - Curriculum vitae
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*1957 Laurea cum laude in Physics at Rome University
*1959-69 Researcher at Plasma Physics Laboratory CNEN, Frascati
*1969- 70 Research Associate ESRO-NASA, Center for Space Research MIT
*1970- 71 Senior Scientist in the X-ray Group led by R. Giacconi at ASE, Cambridge, Mass.
*1971- 72 Visiting Scientist at ESRIN-ESA, Frascati
*1972- 74 Associate Professor of Astronomy at the University of L Aquila
*1974-76 Research Director at the Institute for Space Astrophysics, CNR, Frascati
*1976-79 Full Professor of Cosmology at Padova University
*1979-82 Full Professor of Astrophysics at Rome University, La Sapienza
*1986-92 Director of Rome Astronomical Observatory
*1984-2008 Full Professor of Astrophysics at University of Rome Tor Vergata
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__Highlights of Scientific Work__
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*Discovery of X-ray emission from hot, diffuse baryons in galaxy Clusters and Groups
*The now standard, p-model for the radiai distribution of the hot intracluster plasma and its bremsstrahlung emission
*How entropy sets the baryon apart from the dark matter distribution in galaxy Clusters Distance of galaxy Clusters from X-ray luminosity and CMB spectral perturbation
*Non-thermal emissions from AGN and Quasars
*Continuity equation for the luminosity function of Quasars and its cosmological evolution
*Models of gamma-ray emissions from Blazars