List of Italian inventors and discoverers
The list of Italian inventors and discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Italy in alphabetical order by family name.
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A.
- Giovanni Agusta , aviation pioneer, inventor of the braking parachute
- Giovanni Battista Amici , astronomer and optician
- Cyriacus of Ancona , archaeologist, forerunner of modern classical archeology and one of the first epigraphers
- Giuseppe Airoldi and Valentino Airoldi
- Amedeo Avogadro : physicist and chemist, inventor of Avogadro's law and Avogadro's constant
B.
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni : He uncovered the temple of Abu Simbel and the grounds of Karnak. In 1818 Belzoni discovered the entrance of the Chephren pyramid in Giza and penetrated to the burial chamber. Belzoni was also the first European to visit Siwa Oasis, and he found the ruins of Berenike on the Red Sea.
- Flavio Baracchini
- Eugenio Barsanti : engineer; who is reputed to be the inventor of the internal combustion engine , but the patent application has been lost and no one knows what kind of machine he really invented
- Robert Lyudwigowitsch Bartini : (Russia / Italy); Aircraft designer
- Enrico Bombieri , mathematician, Fields Medal holder (1974)
- Enea Bossi, Sr. , inventor of the Pedaliante (1937)
- Daniel Bovet : (Nobel Prize) - for his discoveries about synthetic compounds that allow certain substances to take effect in the body, and especially their effect on the vascular system and skeletal muscles
- Corrado Böhm , computer scientist
- Giovanni Branca : architect
- Filippo Brunelleschi : architect
- Tito Livio Burattini : (Italy / Poland) inventor, architect, Egyptologist and instrument maker
C.
- Giobatta Cabona , inventor of Pan di Spagna ( sponge cake )
- Giovanni Caboto , reached either Newfoundland in 1497 or the North American mainland as the first European after the Vikings
- Alvise Cadamosto , in the service of the Portuguese in 1455 and 1456, explored the West African coast and discovered three of the Cape Verde islands
- Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti , physicist
- Tullio Campagnolo , inventor of the quick release
- Secondo Campini , engineer
- Mario Capecchi (Nobel Prize), research on the knockout mouse
- Arturo Caprotti , engineer
- Gerolamo Cardano : Cardanic suspension (supposedly), Cardan grid; Cardan formulas ; Cardan circles
- Antonio Benedetto Carpano
- Giovanni Caselli , physicist, inventor of the Pantelegraph (copy graph) 1855
Bartolomeo Cristofori , 1726
- Bartolomeo Cristofori , inventor of the piano
- Alessandro Cruto , pioneer of the light bulb
D.
- Luigi Dadda , computer scientist
- Salvino degli Armati (fictional person)
- Corradino D'Ascanio
- Emilio Del Giudice , string theory pioneer
- Giambattista della Porta
- Guidobaldo del Monte , astronomer
- Giuseppe Donati
- Giovanni de Dondi , Astronomical Clock (Astrarium) 1364
- Adriano Ducati
- Renato Dulbecco : Biologist, (Nobel Prize) - for his discoveries in the field of interactions between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell
E.
- Luigi Emanueli , electrical engineer
- Eufrosino della Volpaia
F.
- Johann Maria Farina : Italy / Germany - Eau de Cologne (Cologne water) around 1709
- Gabriele Falloppio , anatomist, description of the fallopian tube ; Working on syphilis
- Giacomo Fauser :
- Federico Faggin : inventor of the Intel 4004 processor
- Johann Maria Farina : inventor of Aqua mirabilis , perfume
- Enrico Fermi : (Nobel Prize), physicist - determination of new radioactive elements generated by neutron bombardment and the discovery of the nuclear reactions triggered by slow neutrons in connection with this work
- Salvatore Ferragamo : women's sandal ; Wedge heel
- Galileo Ferraris : Magnetic rotating field 1885, Ferraris counter, three-phase current 1887–90 (with Bradley, Haselwander, Dolivo-Dobrowolsky, Wenström)
- Pietro Ferrero : Nutella
- Leonardo Fibonacci : Fibonacci sequence
- Alessio Figalli : mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal
- Johannes de Fontana : Laterna magica , formerly a wheelchair with pulleys
- Carlo Forlanini : artificial pneumothorax for pneuomothorax therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis
- Enrico Forlanini : hydrofoil
G
Galileo Galilei , 1636
- Galileo Galilei , astronomer, thermoscope (preform of the thermometer) 1592, hydrostatic balance 1586/87
- Luigi Galvani
- Gasparo da Salò
- Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri
- Benedetto Gentile , Genoa - Lotto (5 out of 90)
- Riccardo Giacconi : (Italy / United States), Physicist (Nobel Prize) - groundbreaking work in astrophysics that led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources
- Corrado Gini , Gini coefficient
- Flavio Gioia : Compass around 1302/1312 (allegedly)
- Francesco di Giorgio : Mine 1495 (attributed)
- Giuseppe di Giugno
- Camillo Golgi : (Nobel Prize), work on the structure of the nervous system
- Guido von Arezzo : inventor of notation (music)
J
K
- Christopher Columbus (Italy / Spain), navigator, discoverer of the Bahama Islands , Jamaica , Cuba , Hispaniola and other Caribbean islands
L.
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange , astronomer and mathematician, Lagrange's theorem , interpolation , Lagrange density , Lagrange formalism , Lagrange multiplier , Lagrange polynomial , Lagrange point , Lagrange resolvent , four-squares theorem
- Francesco Lana Terzi : Design of an airship 1670, Braille 1670
- Ruggero Lenci
- Leonardo da Vinci , polymath
- Tullio Levi-Civita , mathematician
- Rita Levi-Montalcini , neurologist (Nobel Prize)
- Cesare Lombroso
- Giovanni Luppis : the first torpedoes with their own propulsion and self-control (together with Robert Whitehead (1823–1905), GB)
- Salvador Edward Luria (Nobel Prize), microbiologist
M.
Guglielmo Marconi , around 1907
- Niccolò Machiavelli : important state philosophy of modern times
- Raffaello Magiotti : Cartesian diver 1648
- Ettore Majorana : Physicist (areas of expertise: including nuclear physics and relativistic quantum mechanics ), disappeared in 1938 under unexplained circumstances / reasons
- Marcello Malpighi : "Founder" of plant anatomy and comparative physiology
- Amatino Manucci
- Innocenzo Manzetti co-inventor of the telephone in 1865; Pasta machine 1857; Inventor of a steam car 1864
- Guglielmo Marconi (Nobel Prize), physicist, wireless telegraphy 1895 (patent 1896), use of different radio frequencies, (patent 1900)
- Federico Martinotti
- Felice Matteucci
- Antonio Meucci , forerunner of the telephone around 1854
- Maria Montessori , doctor and reform pedagogue, Montessori pedagogy
- Fabrizio Mordente : eight-point circle
- Angelo Moriondo : inventor of the coffee machine
- Claudio Monteverdi : Modern Opera
N
- Giulio Natta , chemist (Nobel Prize)
- Umberto Nobile , airship pioneer
- Antonio da Noli , opened up the Cape Verde Islands between 1458 and 1460
P
- Antonio Pacinotti
- Luigi Palmieri : Seismometer around 1856
- Giuseppe Peano , mathematician
- Marco Polo : Asia traveler
- Enzo Paoletti
- Pier Giorgio Perotto , inventor of the first personal computer
- Fabio Perini
- Giovanni Plana , astronomer
- Giovanni Poleni
- Ignazio Porro : Porro prism 1854
- Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli , inventor of ice
R.
- Agostino Ramelli : Ramelli's book wheel, 16th century
- Giuseppe Ravizza : Ribbon
- Giovanni Rappazzo
- Scipione Riva-Rocci : Blood pressure monitor , 1896
- Carlo Rubbia : Physicist (Nobel Prize)
S.
- Sanctorius , thermometer 1626
- Raimondo di Sangro
- Antonio Sant'Elia
- Francesco Scacchi
- Antonino Sciascia
- Emilio Segrè (Italy / United States) Physicist (Nobel Prize) - for discovering the antiproton
- Ascanio Sobrero : Nitroglycerin 1847
- Nazareno Strampelli
T
- Mariano di Jacopo, known as Taccola : machines (including crane, gear shift, keel breaker)
- Cristoforo Taverna : discoverer of the lottery
- Teseo Tesei
- Vincenzo Tiberio : pioneer of penicillins
- Marcus Tullius Tiro : Roman Empire - shorthand (Tironic notes) 63 BC Chr.
- Luigi Torchi: inventor of a key calculator with direct multiplication (1834)
- Evangelista Torricelli : Mercury Barometer
- Juanelo Turriano
V
- Amerigo Vespucci : explored the east coast of South America from 1499
- Guido da Vigevano : chariots, wind-powered chariots and siege engines
- Leonardo da Vinci : polymath, pioneer of the self-propelled car, pioneer of the tank
- Andrew J. Viterbi : inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
- Vadino and Ugolino de Vivaldo , the brothers tried in 1291 as the first to sail around Africa and reach Malabar
- Alessandro Volta , inventor of the battery
- Vito Volterra , mathematician and physicist
Z
- Ildebrando Zacchini
- Giuseppe Zamboni
- Nicolaus Zucchius (Niccolo Zucchi): reflecting telescope 1616