Carlo Fabrizio Parona (1855-1939)

Carlo Fabrizio Parona (1855-1939)

He is elected President of the Academy of Sciences of Turin and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
The President of the Council of Ministers, Giovanni Giolitti, appoints him as Chairman of the Royal Geological Committee of Italy, post in which he will be confirmed several times until 1925.

1909
He continues and completes the studies on biological builders, publishing on “Memorie descrittive della Carta Geologica d’Italia”, the work “La fauna coralligena del Cretaceo dei Monti d’Ocre”  (Cretaceous Coral fauna of the Ocre Mountains).

1910
He is appointed President of the Commission for the Study of Periodic Changes in Glaciers, established in 1904.
1913
The government commissiones him a geological study of the Libyan territories, aimed at the agricultural improvement of the former Italian colony. This study is published with the title “LaTripolitania settentrionale”  (The Northern Tripolitania).

1922
He continues geological studies and realizes the work “Caratteri ed aspetti geologici del Piemonte”  (Piedmont's Geological Aspects and Characteristics ).

1927
He participates in the realization of the volume: “Relazioni Scientifiche della Spedizione Italiana De Filippi nell'Himàlaia, Caracorum e Turchestan cinese (1913-1914)”  (Scientific Reports of the Italian De Filippi Expedition in the Chinese Himalaya, Karakorum and Turkestan (1913-1914)) published by Zanichelli, with two studies on the fossil finds collected during that expedition.

1930
At the age of 75 he ends his long academic career, during which he conducted countless studies and made 174 scientific publications.

1933
He continues to work on Libyan fossils and publishes the study on “Di alcune rudiste della Tripolitania” (Some Rudists of Tripolitania).

1935
He publishes the divulgative work “Il Piemonte e i suoi paesaggi” (Piedmont and its landscapes).

1939
He died in Busto Arsizio (Milan) at the age of 84.


For further information:

Grossi F. (2011) - “Carlo Fabrizio Parona (1855-1939): mezzo secolo di geologia” in Uomini e ragioni: i 150 anni della geologia unitaria. Atti. Sessione F4, Geoitalia  2011, VIII Forum Italiano di Scienze della Terra, Torino, 19 - 23 settembre 2011. ISPRA. pp. 109 -119.