Carlo Matteucci (June 20/21 , 1811 - June 25, 1868), Italian physicist, was born at Forli .

After attending the École Polytechnique at Paris, he became professor of physics successively at Bologna (1832), Ravenna (1837) and Pisa (1840). From 1847 he took an active part in politics, and in 1860 was chosen an Italian senator, at the same time becoming inspector-general of the Italian telegraph lines. Two years later he was minister of education. He died near Leghorn on the 25th of June 1868.

He was the author of four scientific treatises:

• 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).

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 polarization of electrodes, etc., sufficiently complete accounts of which are given in Wiedemann's Galvanismus. 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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• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.