Adolfo Bartoli

Adolfo Bartoli ( born March 19, 1851 in Firenze, † July 18, 1896 in Pavia ) was an Italian physicist, the theoretically predicted one of the first, the existence of the radiation pressure.

Life

Bartoli studied physics and mathematics at the University of Pisa to 1874 he was professor of physics at the following institutions: . To the Technical Institute in Arezzo (1876 ), the University of Sassari (1878), the Technical Institute of Firenze (1879 ), the University of Catania (1886-1893), and the University of Pavia ( 1893-1896 ).

James Clerk Maxwell ran from 1874 from Maxwell's equations in the framework of electrodynamics that electromagnetic waves can exert a pressure on the body.

1876 ​​directs Bartoli from the existence of the radiation pressure from thermodynamical considerations. He argued that could be transmitted at a moving mirror due to the Doppler effect and thermal energy from a cold to a hot body by the reflection of light. To avoid the injury of the second law of thermodynamics, it is necessary that the light exerts a pressure on the mirror. The radiation pressure was therefore formerly named after its discoverers also Maxwell Bartolischer pressure.

The radiation pressure later played in the reflections of Albert Einstein, who lingered around 1895 at the time of Pavia, as there Bartoli held the chair of physics, in the context of the equivalence of mass and energy and the photoelectric effect a major role. However, whether Bartoli had a direct influence on Einstein, is unknown.