title: Five Solar Cycles of Solar Corona Investigations
abstract: These are the memoirs of fifty years of research in solar physics, closely related to the history of three of the major solar space missions, from the Solar Maximum Mission, SMM, to Solar Orbiter, at present in navigation toward vantage points closer and closer to the Sun. My interest in solar physics was stimulated by the studies on cosmic rays at the University of Turin, and the research in this field initiated at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow in the team of John Wilcox with stu
journal: Solar Physics