Ermanno Grinzato: a survey on thermophysical properties assessment

In this work, the direct contribution and the inspiring activity of Ermanno Grinzato are resumed, focusing on the field of thermophysical properties evaluation. The main branches, followed in more than 30 years of research for the development of the InfraRed thermography technique, are reported and related to the scientific and industrial panorama at the time of their introduction. Those branches witness the spirit of excitement and the foresight of the solutions proposed, developed and adopted in the laboratory of the National Research Council in Padova. That laboratory was in a broad sense the 'Alma Mater' of a generation of researchers that have been working in the InfraRed field.