Marcello Boldrini

Marcello Boldrini 9 February 1890, Matelica(Italy) – 5 March 1969, Milano(Italy) was an Italian statistician.

Biography

Since 1922, he has continuously taught courses in statistics, biometry, and demography at the first Catholic and the Bocconi University of Milan, and then at University of Rome as Emeritus Professor. He was also a member of several academies and institutes in Italy and abroad, serving for several years as president of the International Institute of Statistics. His scientific research was on both methodological and applied statistics, particularly on demography, anthropometry, and economics. As statistician, he has been particularly interested to the foundations of the method, and he proposed a view of statistics as empirical history of all the positive sciences. To deepen these researches he founded a statistical Laboratory at the Catholic University of Milan. The results are widely discussed in the volumes Statistica: Teoria e metodi (first edition, 1942), and Teoria della Statistica (1963), that have been studied by thousands of students. For Boldrini, Statistics is a formal science as mathematics and logic, but it is different from them as a scientific inquiry method in the inductive and deductive phases of the research. Beyond academic commitment, he also had several management positions in the state oil: it was first named president of Agip (1948–1953), was then Vice-President's ENI (1953–1962), becoming finally going to President Enrico Mattei , until 1967.

Research Interests

Statistics, Demography, Economics, Biometry, Anthropometry.

Education

Degree in Economics, 1912, Bocconi University, Milan, with a dissertation in Statistics.

Academic Positions

Professor of Statistics and Demography (since1922) at the Universities of Messina, Padua, Milan and Rome .Dean of Political Sciences, Milan Catholic University (1043-1945). Vice President and then President of ENI (1953–1967).

Honours,Awards

Member of Ponticial Academy, Accademia dei Lincei, Vice President of IIS. Honoris Causa at Rio de Janeiro University. Professor emeritus at Rome University.

Known for

Rational approach to Statistics and diffusion of statistical inference

Students

Bernardo Colombo, Luigi Faleschini, Albino Uggè.

Publications

• Gli studi statistici sul sesso. La proporzione dei sessi delle nascite e i caratteri sessuali secondari, (1921);
• Biometrica (1927);
• Biometria e antropometria (1934);
• La statistica e le scienze naturali, (1941);
• Statistica, teoria e metodi (1942; 4a ed. 1959);
• Prospettive e problemi della produzione degli idrocarburi in Italia, (1950);
• Demografia (1956);
• Le statistiche empiriche e la teoria dei campioni (with A. Naddeo, 1957);
• Il principio di Malthus e la popolazione mondiale, Economia e Storia, 3, (1957);
• Teoria della statistica (1963).

Link

https://sites.google.com/site/dizionariosis/dizionario-statistico/statistici-a-c/boldrini-marcello http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello Boldrini