Alberto Angela

Alberto Angela (Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto ˈandʒela]; born

April 8, 1962) is an Italian paleontologist, writer and journalist. Alberto Angela
Angela is currently a famous history and science communicator
in Italy.

Contents
Biography
Works
References
External links

Biography
Alberto Angela was born in Paris. Born April 8, 1962
Paris, France
He accompanied his father, Italian TV announcer Piero Angela,
on his trips ever since he was a child, something that allowed him Nationality Italian
to learn many European languages and to acquire a cosmopolitan Alma mater La Sapienza University
culture. After being a student in France, he enrolled in a course of
Occupation Scientific popularizer
Natural Sciences at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, finally
graduating with 110/110 and a prize for his thesis. He also studied Paleontologist
at multiple American universities, where he took courses of Writer
specialisation from Harvard, Columbia and UCLA and further Years active 1990-present
focused on palaeontology and paleoanthropology. Once out of
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
university he started working in the research field participating in
paleoanthropologic digs in various places in the world, among Spouse(s) Monica Angela (m. 1993)
which Zaire, Ishango, Tanzania, Olduvai and Laetoli, Sultanate of Children 3
the Oman, Mongolia, and the desert of the Gobi.
Signature
In 1988 he published an essay on the new techniques of
interactivity in scientific museums, entitled Musei (e mostre) a
misura d'uomo. Come comunicare attraverso gli oggetti.
Together with his father he has written various books of scientific
subjects: La straordinaria storia dell'uomo (1989), La
straordinaria storia della vita sulla Terra (1992), Il Pianeta dei Dinosauri (1993), Dentro al
Mediterraneo (1995), La straordinaria storia di una vita che nasce - 9 mesi nel ventre materno (1996),
Squali (1997), Viaggio nel Cosmo (1998).

As a journalist, he has collaborated with various daily papers and periodicals, among which La Stampa,
Airone, Epoca.
On television programs, he has conceived and written together with his father Il pianeta dei dinosauri,
transmitted by Rai Uno in 1993; he is one of the authors of a series of TV program(s), including
Superquark, Quark Speciale, and Viaggio nel cosmo for Raiuno.[1] He is also author of the afternoon
documentary container-program Passaggio a Nord Ovest, on the same channel. In 1998 he was
commentator in the field in the Italian version of the series of documentaries "Big Cat Diary" devoted to
the great African feline, entirely realized in co-production between RAI and BBC and for this program,
he stayed in the reserve of Masai Mara, in Kenya. Together with his father, Angela was the host of the
program Ulisse, from 2001 on Rai Tre, for which he won the Premio Flaiano for television. In 2002 he
was attacked and robbed by bandits while filming a TV program, in the desert of Niger.

He received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2017.

In 2018, he received honorary Neapolitan citizenship.[2]

He is a member of the Italian institute of Human Palaeontology (Rome), and of the Centro Studi e
Ricerche Ligabue (Venice).

Works
Piero Angela, Alberto Angela, The extraordinary story of human origins, Prometheus Books, 1993,
ISBN 978-0-87975-803-5
Piero Angela, Alberto Angela, The extraordinary story of life on earth, Prometheus Books, 1996,
ISBN 978-1-57392-043-8
Piero Angela, Alberto Angela, Sharks!: predators of the sea, Photographs Alberto Luca Recchi,
Courage Books, 1998
Alberto Angela, A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome, Translated by Gregory Conti, Europa Editions,
Incorporated, 2009, ISBN 978-1-933372-71-6 [3]
Alberto Angela, The Reach of Rome, Translated by Gregory Conti, Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013, New York,
ISBN 978-0-8478-4128-8

References
1. http://www.europaeditions.com/author.php?Id=61
2. http://www.lacooltura.com/2018/05/alberto-angela-napoletano-ce-delibera/
3. http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2009_09_015117.php

External links
Alberto Angela's blog (http://www.albertoangela.it/) (in Italian)
Alberto Angela (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5540086/) on IMDb
"Alberto Angela racconta il suo "Ulisse"", RAI (https://web.archive.org/web/20080912045633/http://w
ww.international.rai.it/tv/dietrolequinte/mostra.php?id=7487)

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