Professor (retired) Pier Remigio Salvi was a Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry "U. Schiff" of the University of Florence (Italy), where he served as Director in the years 2010–2012. He completed his PhD studies at the University of Florence. He has published 120 papers in various journals. His teaching disciplines include Physical Chemistry, Thermodynamics, and Photochemistry, and his interests include infrared and Raman spectroscopy of molecular crystals, one- and two- photon absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies of organic molecules, pico- and femtosecond relaxation in porphyrins, and SERS spectroscopy of biology-related materials. In the last few years, he has broadened his scientific curiosity, becoming interested in the history of science in the XVIII and XIX centuries.     .