Carlo Matteucci

Carlo Matteucci ( born June 20, 1811 in Forlì, Romagna, † June 25, 1868 in Ardenza at Livorno ) was an Italian physicist and neurophysiologist.

Matteucci studied 1825-1828 Mathematics at the University of Bologna. After receiving his doctorate in 1829, he continued his studies at the École Polytechnique in Paris and Bologna (1832 ), Florence, Ravenna (1837 ) and Pisa. In 1840 he became professor of physics at the University of Pisa.

Inspired by the work of Luigi Galvani he hired bioelectrical experiments. Matteucci was the first who succeeded to measure the electrical current of a muscle directly. His research influenced Johannes Peter Müller and Emil Heinrich du Bois- Reymond.

From 1847 Matteucci was active in politics, in 1860 he was a senator. Matteucci 1862 was Minister of Education.

Matteucci in 1844 awarded the Copley Medal. The Farngattung Matteuccia struthiopteris ( ostrich fern ) is named after him.

Works

  • Lezioni di fisica ( 2 vols., Pisa, 1841)
  • Matteucci C.: Sur un produit par les phenomene physiologique s muscles contraction. Ann. Chim. Phys. 6 (1842 ) 339-341.
  • Lezioni sui fenomeni fisico - chimici dei corpi Viventi (Pisa, 1844)
  • Trattato dei fenomeni elettrofisiologici degli animali (1844 )
  • Manuale di Telegrafia Elettrica (Pisa, 1850)
  • Cours spécial sur l' induction, le magnétisme de rotation, etc. (Paris, 1854).
  • Corso di elettrofisiologia ( 1857)
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