He was the Principal Investigator on the Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder
(TIGER) experiment, a predecessor experiment to SuperTIGER which had been
designed to measure the elemental composition of cosmic rays heavier than iron.
It was flown from Antarctica on long duration balloon flights in 2001 and 2003.
He was also the Principal Investigator on the SuperTIGER experiment that flew
over Antarctica in 2012-2013 on a record breaking 55-day flight, with the goal of
measuring the elemental abundances of cosmic ray nuclei heavier than zinc, and
was co-investigator on the second flight of SuperTIGER launched in December,
2018. He is a co-investigator on the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS)
experiment aboard the NASA ACE spacecraft that was launched in 1997. He is a
co-investigator on the CALET (Calorimetric Electron Telescope) experiment, a
Japanese, Italian, and American experiment delivered to the International Space
Station. He is also a co-investigator on the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna
(ANITA) experiment, a high energy neutrino experiment that flew successfully on
four long duration balloon missions over Antarctica from 2006 through 2016.
Paolo de Bernardis
He is Professor of Physics at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy and his
fields of expertise are Experimental Astrophysics and Cosmology, in particular the
study of cosmic microwave background radiation. He was a member of the second, fourteenth and eighteenth dispatch of the National Program for Research in
Antarctica, and in the OASIS and the BOOMERANG programs. He was also the
Principal Investigator of the Italian international experiment BOOMERANG
stratospheric balloon. During its 1998 Antarctic flight this measured (for the first
time) the fluctuations of the primordial plasma which demonstrated the “lack of
curvature” (i.e. the “flatness”) of the universe, and estimated the density of total
mass and energy. In 2003, BOOMERANG was relaunched to measure the state of
polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
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(TIGER) experiment, a predecessor experiment to SuperTIGER which had been
designed to measure the elemental composition of cosmic rays heavier than iron.
It was flown from Antarctica on long duration balloon flights in 2001 and 2003.
He was also the Principal Investigator on the SuperTIGER experiment that flew
over Antarctica in 2012-2013 on a record breaking 55-day flight, with the goal of
measuring the elemental abundances of cosmic ray nuclei heavier than zinc, and
was co-investigator on the second flight of SuperTIGER launched in December,
2018. He is a co-investigator on the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS)
experiment aboard the NASA ACE spacecraft that was launched in 1997. He is a
co-investigator on the CALET (Calorimetric Electron Telescope) experiment, a
Japanese, Italian, and American experiment delivered to the International Space
Station. He is also a co-investigator on the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna
(ANITA) experiment, a high energy neutrino experiment that flew successfully on
four long duration balloon missions over Antarctica from 2006 through 2016.
Paolo de Bernardis
He is Professor of Physics at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy and his
fields of expertise are Experimental Astrophysics and Cosmology, in particular the
study of cosmic microwave background radiation. He was a member of the second, fourteenth and eighteenth dispatch of the National Program for Research in
Antarctica, and in the OASIS and the BOOMERANG programs. He was also the
Principal Investigator of the Italian international experiment BOOMERANG
stratospheric balloon. During its 1998 Antarctic flight this measured (for the first
time) the fluctuations of the primordial plasma which demonstrated the “lack of
curvature” (i.e. the “flatness”) of the universe, and estimated the density of total
mass and energy. In 2003, BOOMERANG was relaunched to measure the state of
polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
282 Appendix 2: Scientists and Engineers in Ballooning