Gilberto Bernardini (born 20.08.1906) is an Italian physicist and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1949). He was born in Florence. He graduated from the University of Pisa (1928). In 1938-46 he was professor at the University of Bologna and in 1947-64 at the University of Rome (in 1948-50 he was visiting professor at Columbia and Illinois universities, and in 1958-62 he also worked at CERN); in 1964-77 he was director of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
His work was in the fields of nuclear physics, spectroscopy, cosmic-ray physics, neutrino physics, meson physics and accelerator technology. He studied meson production processes.
In 1960-67 he was president of the Italian Physical Society and in 1968-70 of the European Physical Society. The A. Righi Medal (1955), the gold medal of the Italian Physical Society (1969) and others.