Augusto Righi

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Augusto Righi.

Augusto Righi (born August 27, 1850 in Bologna , † June 8, 1920 ibid) was an Italian physicist .

Life

Righi was a professor in Palermo , Padua and Bologna .

In 1880 he discovered magnetic hysteresis . He expanded the understanding of interference phenomena and discovered the thermomagnetic Righi-Leduc effect in 1887 (found independently by Sylvestre Anatole Leduc ).

At the same time as Wilhelm Hallwachs he discovered electron emission in the photoelectric effect .

In 1905 he received the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society , in which he was accepted in 1907 as a "Foreign Member". In 1896 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . He was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 1907 ( Honorary Fellow ). In 1911 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1912 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and on December 1, 1913 to the Académie des sciences .

literature

  • Wilhelm von Zahn : About the alleged dependence of the electromotive force on the resistance found by Righi in galvanic chains with poorly conductive liquids. In: Meeting reports of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig 2 (1880), p. 26.
  • Curt Rint (ed.): Handbook for high frequency and electrical technicians. V. Band. Specialized dictionary . Berlin: Verlag für Radion-Foto-Kinotechnik, 1967, p. 804

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ entry on Righi; Augusto (1850-1920) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Augusto Righi. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 20, 2015 .
  3. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 202.
  5. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter R. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 21, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Righi, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1920
Place of death Bologna