Dario Graffi (10 January 1905 – 28 December 1990) was an influential Italian mathematical physicist, known for his researches on the electromagnetic field, particularly for a mathematical explanation of the Luxemburg effect,[3] for proving an important uniqueness theorem for the solutions of a class of fluid dynamics equations including the Navier-Stokes equation,[4] for his researches in continuum mechanics and for his contribution to oscillation theory.
[5] Dario Graffi was born in Rovigo, the son of Michele, a yarn wholesale trader and of Amalia Tedeschi.
[6] He attended the Istituto tecnico in his home town, specializing in physics and mathematics, but got his diploma in Bologna in 1921, where his family had moved a year before.
[6] He graduated from the University of Bologna in Physics in 1925,[7] when he was 20,[8] and in mathematics in 1927,[7] when he was 22:[8] both the degrees were awarded cum laude,[9] He was awarded the Golden medal "Benemeriti della Scuola, della Cultura, dell'Arte" in 1964, and a year later, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded him the Prize of the President of the Italian Republic.
[2] Graffi is known for his researches on the electromagnetic field, particularly for a mathematical explanation of the Luxemburg effect, for proving an important uniqueness theorem for the solutions of a class of fluid dynamics equations including the Navier-Stokes equation,[10] for his researches in continuum mechanics and for his contribution to oscillation theory.