Water Research Institute (Verbania)

During the Second World War life in the Institutes was difficult, due to economic shortages and lack of communication.

Nevertheless, important scientists were based here during that time: Adriano Buzzati-Traverso, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Vittorio Tonolli[1] and Giuseppe Ramazzotti.

Several limnologists passed through the institute, most notably: Ramon Margalef, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Richard Vollenweider, Charles Goldman, Robert G. Wetzel[2] and W. Thomas Edmondson.

[3] The Institute entered CNR in 1977, and in 2002 ISE started its existence, with the inclusion of the units in Firenze, Pisa and Sassari.

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