Ferruccio Zambonini
Ferruccio Zambonini was an Italian mineralogist and geologist. Most of his time he worked on the geology and mineralogy of Mount Vesuvius.Zambonini was born in Rome and studied at the university there. From 1906 on he worked in the Mineralogical Museum at the University of Naples. In 1909 he changed to the University of Sassari, but he returned to Naples in 1926, where he held a chair for general chemistry.Honours
The minerals Ferruccite and Zamboninite were named after him.
