Cultura e Scienza del Colore - Color Culture and Science


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Cultura e Scienza del Colore - Color Culture and Science | 09 | 2018 ISSN 2384-9568

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Claudio Oleri Memorial

The Associazione Italiana Colore, with 
all its members would like to express its 
deepest condolences for the premature 
death of Claudio Oleari on 23 January 
2018, together with all who have known 
him, read his books, listened to his 
conferences or lectures.
He was an Eminent physics scholar and 
an Associate Professor at the University 
of Parma, at the Department of Physics 
and Earth Sciences. He dedicated his life 
to the activities of teaching with the same 
passion and interest that he dedicated to 
the researches in the context of colour, 
applying physics to perception and fixing 
its role in colorimetry. Moreover in 1995 
he started the Gruppo in Colorimetria e 
Reflectoscopia which later became the 
Associazione Italiana Colore.
His availability for colleagues and 
students and his ability to listen and 
advice are proverbial: his kindness will 
be always remembered by everyone 
who has known him. 

These qualities are clearly demonstrated 
by the message of his profile at the 
University of Parma “My office is at the 
Department of Physics (Campus, viale 
Usberti 7/A), phone 0521-905214, email 
address:  claudio.oleari@fis.unipr.it. 
You can send me email for any request 
or question related to my course. I’m 
almost always in my office and I’m 
always available except when otherwise 
busy. Just call to check if I’m busy. I 
always reply to emails.”
He conducted within the Italian 
Association, a valuable activity of 
information and connection of which 
remains a rich bibliography, always 
having in mind the need to invest in 
research and training both in Italy and 
abroad.
His death leaves a void difficult to fill and 
the world of colour loses an intellectual 
and an attentive and informed scholar.

Gruppo del Colore – Associazione 
Italiana Colore