THE Guardian article
mentions Admiral Giancarlo Vallauri as an eminent
Jewish scientist who was not allowed to join the members
of the Accademia d’Italia. That’s nonsense. Admiral
Vallauri, born in Rome on October 19, 1882, died in Turin
on May 7, 1957 and author, among a lot of others
inventions, of the triode equation in 1917, was one of
the world most important wireless engineers during the
first half of the XX Century but not a Jew.

He was still in active service, mainly working on magnetism experiments with ships from degaussing and something not much different from the American
“Philadelphia experiment” of WW2 with the RIEC (Regio
Istituto delle Elettrocomunicazioni, the Regia Marina radio experimental center which was founded by the same
Vallauri on 1916 at Leghorn) until the armistice of
September 8, 1943 and he was President, from 1934 until after November 1938, of the EIAR (the RAI Radio and television national

service), which was the equivalent of
British BBC until 1941 when he devoted all his resources to the naval effort.

It’s true that he strongly protested in any public contest (in the Senate too, were he was a member granted for life) about the infamous Italian racial laws of 1938
but the palla nera (black ball) of Marconi which was dropped has to be researched with regard to the scientists’ rivalries and different theories (Vallauri was the father of the Italian Television after the war and he didn’t approve of some of Marconi’s ideas on this subject).

Dr
Enrico Cernuschi

P.S. “E” may stay not for Ebreo (Jew) but simply
“Escluderei” or “Escludo” or, again, “Espurgare”, which mean “exclude” or “remove”.