Among the statutory purposes of the Cariello Corbino Foundation there is also to remember the figures and works of Orso Mario and Epicarmo Corbino. Frankly we thought that this would be one of the most difficult objectives to achieve, because now our relations with the cultural and institutional environments of their hometown (Augusta - SR) were non-existent, nor could the few cousins still present in the such a heavy commitment. Then the miracle, in the person of the engineer Giovanni Vaccaro, an illustrious Augustan, already author of an essay on Orso Mario, who at just 94 years wrote the monographic volume "Self-taught Epicarmo Corbino" and his son Andrea, who contacted us in September 2017 for pay us some copies. From that moment the engineer Andrea Vaccaro has never stopped, bridging with many other proud Augustans: they too have never stopped and us with them. This is the synthesis of over a year of work and emotions, under the banner of the recovery of an edifying and one of the most extraordinary (and least known) pages of contemporary history in Sicily and Italy. March 16, 2018. "Self-taught Epicarmo Corbino" conference, organized by the Kiwanis Club of Augusta and the State Comprehensive School O.M Corbino of Augusta, at the Rocco Chinnici representation hall of the Augusta Municipal Palace. Speaker, among others, Sergio Corbino, son of Epicarmo and co-founder of the FCC. May 25, 2018. Conference “Don't ask yourself who the Beatles were. Ask who Orso Mario and Epicarmo Corbino were ”, organized by the Municipality of Solarino and the Pro-Loco of Solarino, in the presence of the Mayor Sebastiano Scorpo and the deputy Maria Marzana, member of the Culture Commission in the Chamber of Deputies. Speaker Alberto Corbino, grandson of Epicarmo Corbino, co-founder and president of the FCC. March 1, 2019. Presentation of the 2nd Volume of the Bulletin of the Augustana Society of Homeland History, chaired by Pino Carrabino, at the Anime Sante Church of Augusta. The volume contains a long article "Personal memories of Orso Mario and Epicarmo Corbino", written by Sergio Corbino, who spoke at the event.
22 March 2019. "Face to face - a normal family" conference at the municipal auditorium managed by the Megara High School in Augusta, chaired by Renato Santoro. The conference, in two sessions (one reserved for students and one open to citizenship) brought the testimony of experts in nuclear physics and historians who traced the great professional and human profile of the two Corbino brothers: Enzo Monica (professor of physics, representative of the study center "The Circle"), Enzo Pennone (historian, representative of "Alexandria"), Edoardo Petagna (nuclear physicist) and, in the afternoon session, also Santi Spartà (nuclear physicist). Testimonial: Sergio Corbino. 30-31 March 2019. "Science at the service of the country" two days of intense emotions that can be (hardly) summarized. March 30: meeting with the students of the scientific high school Orso Mario Corbino in Syracuse and lectio magistralis of the physicist Danilo Giulietti (University of Pisa); presentation of the video on the Corbino brothers edited by the students of the Istituto Comprensivo O.M. Corbino di Augusta, directed by Maria Giovanna Sergi; inauguration of the O. M. Corbino library curated by the Augustan Society of Homeland History, chaired by Giuseppe Carrabino, at the ass. Umberto I in Augusta, chaired by Domenico di Franco. March 31: conference open to citizens at the Municipality of Augusta in the presence of the Mayor Cettina di Pietro, and with speeches by the Hon. Maria Marzana, of sen. Giuseppe Pisani, of the school director Maria Giovanna Sergi, of Antonio Roggio, president of the Rotary club Augusta, of Giuseppe Carrabino, of the corvette captain Alberto Boellis, head of the operational service of the Harbor Master's Office - Coast Guard of Augusta and of Don Salvatore Nicosia and of an emotional Alberto Corbino. Finally, the exciting unveiling of the Epicarmo Corbino commemorative epigraph on the facade of the birthplace in Augusta, donated by the Rotary club and the Augustana Society of Homeland History, with the little Raul from Burkina Faso to help Alberto Corbino and with the school children who sing Fratelli d'Italia and citizenship to applaud joyfully. And finally three unscheduled: visit to the Megara high school in Augusta to organize scholarships named after the Corbino brothers; a short walk to the "mountain" along viale Epicarmo Corbino; and, last but not least, the moving surprise encounter with eng. Giovanni Vaccaro, 96 year old "biographer" of the Corbino brothers from whom it all started!
