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Carlo Mortarino
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was born in Turin in 1916. He graduated in Aeronautic Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino, where in 1939 he taught as a temporary assistant. Later on Mortarino became titular professor of the chair of Experimental Aerodynamics. |
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Then Mortarino was an annually appointed lecturer of Labour Hygiene and Safety.
A typical personage of the academic world, with a mind opening going far beyond the methodologic disciplinary schemes of the Politecnico, |
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Mortarino performed a deep activity of research, only poorly witnessed by publications. In fact he was contrary to long writs: thanks to his fine humour he loved to repeat that when people must write they must do it thinking to engrave words on the stone. |
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At Laboratories of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, earlier at the head office of Valentino Castle and then at the present head office of the faculty of Engineering, Mortarino devoted to experimental tests, from which he obtained relevant results. For instance, we can remember studies for protecting the decks of ship against the pollution of burnt gases which brought Mortarino to set a new shape of ship funnels able to protect air mounts and ship locations destined to passengers' walks and travellers' stops against the pollution. Mortarino continued his researches on industrial typed contaminants by air, achieving other important results. We shall not forget the contribution given by Mortarino to the aerodynamic project of the wind tunnel in the Politecnico di Torino and to different other experimental equipment used long in university laboratories.
When a very few people yet spoke of ecology, Mortarino remarked several environmental risk situations. Contrary to monitoring networks and statistic interpreting of phenomena, Mortarino preferred the direct observation to reach individual responsibilities.
In the 60s he was a member of the Interministerial Commission for the Study of Hydraulic Arrangement and the Soil Protection chaired by Giulio De Marchi, who mainly cared for defense structures of the territory linked to hydrogeologic events.
He died in Sondrio in 1993.
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