Macedonio Melloni
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| Awards | Pour le Mérite (1842) ForMemRS (1839) Rumford Medal (1834) |
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| Fields | Physics |
Macedonio Melloni (11 April 1798 – 11 August 1854) was an Italian
Life
Born at Parma, in 1824 he was appointed professor at the local University but was compelled to escape to France after taking part in the revolution of 1831. In 1839 he went to Naples and was soon appointed director of the Vesuvius Observatory, a post that he held until 1848. In 1845, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
He died at Portici, near Naples, of cholera, aged 56.
Work
Melloni's reputation as a physicist rests principally on his discoveries in radiant heat, made with the aid of the thermomultiplier, a combination of
He used an
in the same way as light.His most important book, La thermocrose au la coloration calorifique (Vol. I., Naples, 1850), was unfinished at his death.
He also studied the magnetism of rocks, electrostatic induction and photography.
Honours
- Rumford Medal of the Royal Society (1834);
- Correspondent of the Académie des Sciences(1835);
- Foreign member of the Royal Society, (1839).
See also
References
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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