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CARLO MATTEUCCI (1811-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MATTEUCCI (1811-1868)  , See also:Italian physicist, was See also:born at Forpi on the loth of See also:June 1811 . After attending the tcole Polytechnique at See also:Paris, he became See also:professor of physics successively at See also:Bologna (1832), See also:Ravenna (1837) and See also:Pisa (184o) . From 1847 he took an active See also:part in politics, and in 186o was chosen an Italian senator, at the same See also:time becoming inspector-See also:general of the Italian See also:telegraph lines . Two years later he was See also:minister of See also:education . He died near See also:Leghorn on the 25th of June 1868 . He was the author of four scientific See also:treatises: Lezioni di fisica (2 vols., Pisa, 1841), Lezioni sui fenomeni fisicochimici dei See also:carpi viventi (Pisa, 1844), Manuale di telegrafia elettrica (Pisa, 185o) and Cours See also:special sur l'See also:induction, le magnetisme de rotation, &c . (Paris, 1854) . His numerous papers were published in the Annales de chimie et de physique (1829–1858); and most of them also appeared at the time in the Italian scientific See also:journals . They relate almost entirely to See also:electrical phenomena, such as the magnetic rotation of See also:light, the See also:action of See also:gas batteries, the effects of torsion on See also:magnetism, the polarization of electrodes, &c., sufficiently See also:complete accounts of which are given in See also:Wiedemann's Galvanismus . Nine See also:memoirs, entitled " Electro-Physiological Researches," were published in the Philosophical Transactions, 1845–186o . SeerBianchi's Carlo See also:Matteucci e l'Italia del suo tempo (See also:Rome, 1874) .

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