Antonio Pacinotti
Antonio Pacinotti ( born June 17, 1841 in Pisa, † March 25, 1912 in Pisa ) was an Italian physicist and professor of physics at Pisa.
He studied at the University of Pisa with Prof. Riccardo Felici (1819-1902) on Fallot electric and magnetism and gained his doctorate in 1859.
In 1860 he constructed on the principle of ring anchor a magneto- electric machine, an electric generator, and published his work in 1865 in the Journal of Physics. Although he exhibited in 1881 and 1884 at the International Electricity Exhibition in Paris in Turin, where she was also awarded a prize, he thus remained unsuccessful.
1871 devised Zénobe grams also a ring beam machine, found for funders, and is therefore celebrated as an inventor.
Pacinotti was a professor of architecture and irrigation for some years.
In 1862 he was one of the discoverers of the comet Swift -Tuttle.
In 1898 he became a full member of the Accademia dei Lincei, to which he belonged as a corresponding member since 1883. In 1905 he was appointed Senator and 1911 President of the Italian Electrotechnical Society.