Cesare Marchetti ( Italy)
Cesare Marchetti’s major activities
After the Laurea in Fisica at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore, still in Pisa, he got a Scholarship for the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.
During 1950-55 in Milano at the CISE (Centro Informazioni Studi Esperienze) he worked in the area of Nuclear Energy and Heavy Water production.
From 1956 to 1958 he worked at the Institute Battelle in Geneva in the field of friction and lubrication chemistry relative to watches.
During 1958 he was Head of the Physical Chemistry Division at Agip Nucleare in Milano, developing systems of Nuclear Generation.
From 1959 to 1973 he was Director of Divisione Materiali at the Research Center of ISPRA (Italy) and of a Division Materials at PETTEN (Netherland), part of Euratom. At the beginning of this period (1959-60) he spent two years in Canada as Representative of EURATOM for the optimization of nuclear reactors.
In the meantime, from 1950, he got a Consultancy Contract, that did last 20 years, with the top ten Directors of General Electric in Schenectady and Fairfield (USA) for forecasting and problem solving.
Since 1974 he did work as a System Analyst at IIASA (International Institute for Applied System Analysis) in Laxemburg (Austria). The first ten years were dedicated to the area of Energy, later extending the application of Systems Analysis to the description and forecasting in various areas of technological innovation, on the evolution of economic and social systems, on the dynamics of populations, of transport systems, of historical processes, of war events, of bank systems and of creativity cycles of musicians, painters and scientists.
And also the evolution of the limits of knowledge and the dynamics of Empires and Religions.
Cesare Marchetti Personal Data
Date of birth: May 12, 1927
Place of birth: Lucca (Italy)
Nationality: Italian
Current position: Senior Research Scholar at IIASA
Telephone: +39 55 8367292 ; +43 2236 807-276
e-mail: marchetti.cesare@gmail.com; marcheti@iiasa.ac.at
Office address: Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Education
Classical high School diploma (1944)
Degree in Physics at Pisa University and Scuola Normale Superiore (1948)
Scholarship at Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1949)
Awards
Honorary Director at European Community (1974)
Honoris Causa Degree in Science at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK (1979)
Honorary member of the Order of Engineers in Tuscany
Honorary Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE)
Board Member of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE)
Selected publications
Cesare Marchetti is author of more than 200 publications. Most of them can be found in the: Cesare Marchetti Web Archive that opens by clicking.
1969
Round Table on Direct Production of Hydrogen with Nuclear Heat,
EUR/C-IS/1062/1/69.e., Commission of the European Community, EURATOM Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy
1972
Processus d’auto-enfouissement de recipients contenant des effluents radioactifs de haute activitè
EUR 4903 f, Commission of the European Community, EURATOM Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy
1973
Hydrogen and Energy,
Chemical Economy & Engineering Review, 5(1):7–15, January
1976
From the Primeval Soup to World Government: An Essay on Comparative Evolution,
Anticipation,23:24–27
also available as preprint
PP-76-5, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1977
Primary Energy Substitution Models: On the Interaction Between Energy and Society,
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 10:345—356
1979
On Energy and Agriculture: From Hunting-Gathering to Landless Farming,
Chapter 13 in Proceedings of the International Scientific Forum on Energy for Developed and Developing Countries, Nice, France, October 29–November 2, 1979, Lexington Books, Lexington, MA, USA. also available as publication Energia e Agricoltura , 5 (18):19—22 RR-79-10, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1979
Ten to the twelfth: A Check on the Earth-Carrying Capacity for Man,
Energy , 4 :1107—1117
1980
Society as a Learning System — Discovery, Invention, and Innovation Cycles Revisited,
Technological Forecasting and Social Change , 18 :267—282
1982
Killer Stories — A Systems Exploration in Mortal Diseases,
PP-82-7, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1983
On the Role of Science in the Postindustrial Society: Logos, the Empire Builder,
Technological Forecasting and Social Change , 24 :197–206
also available as reprint
RR -84-11, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1985
Action Curves and Clockwork Geniuses,
WP-85-74, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1987
Darwin and the Navy: How, in a Competitive System, the Future is Encoded in the Past,
Proceedings of the US Naval Academy (USNA) Conference on Technological Innovation and Institutional Adaptation, Annapolis, 15–17 March
1987
The Future of Hydrogen: An Analysis at World Level, with Special Look at Air Transport,
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy , 12 (2):61—71
1988
Kondratiev Revisited — After One Kondratiev Cycle,
International Conference on Regularities of Scientific–Technical Progress and Long-Term Tendencies in Economic Development, 14 March 1988, 14 March 1988, Novosibirsk, USSR
1991
On Savings Banks: Modeling the Diffusion of the Savings Banks Idea in Italy and the Performance of these Banks over Two Centuries,
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1992
What They Need is Speed: Modeling Historical Evolution of Transport Demand to Forecast Air Transport,
Internal Publication, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1994
Anthropological Invariants in Travel Behavior,
Technological Forecasting and Social Change , 47 :75–88
also available as preprint
Internal Publication, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1994
Mobility: On the Potential and the Effects of Introducing Maglevs in the European Transport System,
Report to the Commission of the European Communities Joint Research Center, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Ispra (Varese), Italy, Contract No. 5374–93–07 ED ISP A
1996
Notes on the Limits to Knowledge: Explored with a Darwinian Logic,
Complexity, 3, 22-35
also available as preprint
Sloan Foundation Grant No.~B1995-30.
1999
How a Memory May Be a Number and an Organism May Be Digitally Controlled: Considerations of a Systems Analyst Peeking at the Inner Machinery of Long-Term Memory,
IIASA Contract 98-105, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
2000
Spike trains and kinase II for a digital model of long term memory (An exercise in evolutionary constraints),
Human Evolution, Vol. 15 – N.3-4, p.187-197
2002
Productivity versus Age,
IIASA Contract No. 00-155, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria