Massimo Rapisarda is a physicist who has been a research director at ENEA, developing hardware and methods for detecting X-rays and neutrons in collaboration with INAF and INFN. He is the author or co-author of many publications, the most recent of which may be retrieved through the Harvard database of astrophysics (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/).
His interest in archaeology led him to investigate published literature to verify the hypothesis that the Agricultural Revolution might have been caused by one of two abrupt climatic changes that occurred 14 000 and 11 500 years ago.
He retired in 2020 and started writing crime novels set in modern Sicily.
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Short Biography
Massimo Rapisarda is a physicist who has been a research director at ENEA, developing hardware and methods for detecting X-rays and neutrons in collaboration with INAF and INFN. He is the author or co-author of many publications, the most recent of which may be retrieved through the Harvard database of astrophysics (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/).
His interest in archaeology led him to investigate published literature to verify the hypothesis that the Agricultural Revolution might have been caused by one of two abrupt climatic changes that occurred 14 000 and 11 500 years ago.
He retired in 2020 and started writing crime novels set in modern Sicily.