FRANCESCO PAOLO BONADONNA: A TALE OF A QUATERNARIST

Abstract

Francesco Paolo Bonadonna (known to everyone as “Antonello”) passed away on November 2017. Born in Rome in 1934 and graduated in Geological Science in 1961 at the local university, he dedicated all his life to scientific research and teaching. Notably, during the 60s/80s of the last century, he was considered an actual innovator in the application of the geochemical and geochronological techniques to the Quaternary Geology. He worked in Rome until 1968 starting as a stratigrapher, exemplary for those years are his works on the stratigraphy of the Lazio region, on a paleoecological and paleoclimatological base, carried on along with his colleague P. Ambrosetti (Bonadonna, 1968). Moreover, he devoted himself to the study of diatoms and varved deposits within the Uppsala University. Gabriello Leone