1919
Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (died 1987)
Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (died 1987)
Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (died 1987)
Primo Levi
Italian Holocaust survivor and writer (1919–1987)
- Born
- 1919
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.