He earned his degree in Physics in 1940 from the University of Pisa as a student of the Scuola Normale Superiore, under the mentorship of Luigi Puccianti. After the war, he became Puccianti's assistant at the Institute of Physics at the University of Pisa, marking the start of his academic career.[2]
Gozzini's work soon gained international recognition, drawing the attention of physicists such as Charles Hard Townes, Nicolaas Bloembergen, and especially Alfred Kastler from Paris. Kastler took particular interest in Gozzini's 1951 studies on the Faraday effect in paramagnetic substances within the microwave range, a phenomenon Kastler himself had predicted. Following this, Kastler encouraged Gozzini to investigate the transverse effect, known as the Cotton-Mouton effect, which Gozzini successfully observed some time later.
Thanks to these studies, he was appointed Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Pisa in 1959.
In 1970, he founded the Laboratory for the Study of the Physical Properties of Biomolecules and Cells within the university, later known as the Institute of Biophysics. The following year, in 1971, he established the Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular Physics at the National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, which evolved into the Institute for Chemical-Physical Processes.
In 1985, Gozzini joined the Scuola Normale Superiore as a Professor of Experimental Physics, where he founded the first Experimental Laboratory of Atomic Physics.
His experimental research, focused primarily on low-energy physics, atomic physics, molecular physics, and spectroscopy.[4] As an educator, he successfully built a school of experimental physics in Pisa.
He was candidate for the Nobel for two times in the 1963 and 1965.[5]
Awards
Gozzini received several honorary doctorates from the universities of Clermont-Ferrand, Lille, and the Sorbonne in Paris.[6][7]
