Carlo Matteucci

Carlo Matteucci (b. June 20, 1811, Forli; d. June 25, 1868, Ardenza, Livorno) was an Italian physicist and neurophysiologist who was a pioneer in the study of bioelectricity.

Works

Mateucci was the author of four scientific treatises in physics:

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• Lezioni di fisica (2 vols., Pisa, 1841)
• Lezioni sui fenomeni fisico-chimici dei corpi viventi (Pisa, 1844)
• Manuale di telegrafia elettrica (Pisa, 1850)
• Cours spécial sur l'induction, le magnétisme de rotation, etc. (Paris, 1854).
• Trattato dei fenomeni elettrofisiologici degli animali (1844)
• Corso di elettrofisilogia (1857)

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 journals. They relate almost entirely to electrical phenomena, such as the magnetic rotation of light, the action of gas batteries, the effects of torsion on magnetism, the electric polarization of electrodes, etc., sufficiently complete accounts of which are given in Wiedemann's Galvanismus.

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1829 - 1858 - Light - Gas batteries - Torsion - Magnetism - Electric polarization - Electrode - Wiedemann

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Nine memoirs, entitled Electro-Physiological Researches, were published in the Philosophical Transactions, 1845-1860. See Bianchi's Carlo Matteucci el?Italia del suo tempo (Rome, 1874).

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1845 - 1860 - 1874

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