LEOPOLDO See also:

• LEOPOLDO NOBILI

NOBILI  (1784-18357, See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian physicist, See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Reggio nell' See also:

• EMILIA

Emilia in 1784, was in youth an officer of See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery, but afterwards became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of physics in the archducal museum at See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, the old See also:

• HABITAT (a French word derived from habiter, Lat. habitare, to dwell)

habitat of the Accademia del Cimento . His most valuable contributions to See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science consist in the See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion of the astatic See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of two needles for galvanometers, and in the invention of the so-called thermomultiplier used by him and M . See also:

• MELLONI, MACEDONIO (1798-1854)

Melloni . In 1826 he described the prismatically-coloured films of See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal, known as See also:

• NOBILI, LEOPOLDO

Nobili's rings, deposited electrolytically from solutions of See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead and other salts when the anode is a polished See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

• PLATE

plate and the See also:

• CATHODE

cathode is a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire placed vertically above it . His papers were mostly published in the Bibliotheque universelle of See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva . He died at Florence in See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1835 .