Alberto Angela
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Alberto Angela was born in ParisParis
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He accompanied his father, the well-known Italian TV announcer Piero Angela
Piero Angela
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, on his trips ever since he was a child, something that allowed him to learn many European languages and to appropriate a cosmopolitan culture. After being a student in France
France
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, he enrolled in a course of Natural Sciences at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome
Rome
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, finally graduating with 110/110 and a prize for his thesis. He studied different courses of specialization also in an American university. Once out of university he started working in the research field participating in paleoanthropologic digs in various places in the world, among which Zaire
Zaire
The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...
, Ishango
Ishango
Ishango is a sub-station of Virunga National Park, situated on the Northern Shores of Lake Edward in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The station was created in the 1950s and is famous for many reasons:...
, Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
, Olduvai and Laetoli
Laetoli
Laetoli is a site in Tanzania, dated to the Plio-Pleistocene and famous for its hominin footprints, preserved in volcanic ash . The site of the Laetoli footprints is located 45 km south of Olduvai gorge.-Date:...
, Sultanate of the Oman
Oman
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, Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...
, and the desert of the Gobi.
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 (Mondadori, 1989), La straordinaria storia della vita sulla Terra (Mondadori, 1992), Il Pianeta dei Dinosauri (Mondadori, 1993), Dentro al Mediterraneo (Mondadori, 1995), La straordinaria storia di una vita che nasce - 9 mesi nel ventre materno (RAI
RAI
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-Eri-Mondadori, 1996), Squali (Mondadori, 1997), Viaggio nel Cosmo (Mondadori, 1998).
As a journalist, he has collaborated with various daily papers and periodicals, among which La Stampa
La Stampa
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, Airone
Airone
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, Epoca
Época
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.
On television programs, he has conceived and written together with his father Il pianeta dei dinosauri, transmitted by Rai Uno
Rai Uno
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in 1993; he is one of the authors of the TV program(s): Superquark, Quark Speciale, and Viaggio nel cosmo for Raiuno.
He is author of the program Passaggio a Nord Ovest, on Rai Uno
Rai Uno
Rai 1 is the primary television station of RAI, the national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in Italy. It was born as Rai Tv from 1954 to 1961, called Programma Nazionale from 1961 to 1979, after called Rete 1 from 1979 to 1982, then called Rai Uno from 1982 to...
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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
RAI
RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...
and BBC
BBC
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and for this program, he stayed in the reserve of Masai Mara
Masai Mara
The Maasai Mara National Reserve is a large game reserve in south-western Kenya, which is effectively the northern continuation of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania...
, in Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
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He was the conductor, together with his father, of the program Ulisse, from 2001 on Rai Tre
Rai Tre
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, 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
Niger
Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...
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He is a member of the Italian institute of Human Paleontology (Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
), and of the Centro Studi e Ricerche Ligabue(Venice
Venice
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).
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
- A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome, Translated Gregory Conti, Europa Editions, Incorporated, 2009, ISBN 978-1-933372-71-6