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Giovanni Battista Venturi

1746 - 1822

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Giovanni Battista Venturi (11 September 1746 – 10 September 1822) was an Italian physicist, Catholic priest, savant, man of letters, diplomat and historian of science. He was the discoverer of the Venturi effect, which was described in 1797 in his Recherches Experimentales sur le Principe de la Communication Laterale du Mouvement dans les Fluides appliqué a l'Explication de Differens Phenomènes Hydrauliques, translated into English by William Nicholson as "Experimental Inquiries Concerning the Principle of the Lateral Communication of a Motion in Fluids," and published in 1836 in Thomas Tredgold's Tracts on Hydraulics. Because of this discovery, he is the eponym for the Venturi effect, Venturi tube, Venturi flow meter, and the Venturi pump. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Battista Venturi is the 330th most popular physicist (down from 297th in 2019), the 1,419th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,311th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Physicist.

Giovanni Battista Venturi was a Renaissance architect and engineer who is most famous for his work on the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

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Among physicists, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 330 out of 851. Before him are John Stewart Bell, Armen Sarkissian, Ludwig Prandtl, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Marguerite Perey, and Paul-Jacques Curie. After him are Moshé Feldenkrais, Louis Paul Cailletet, Leopold Infeld, Giovanni Battista Amici, Carl Wieman, and Jan Ingenhousz.

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Among people born in 1746, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 13. Before him are Gaspard Monge, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Robert R. Livingston, Maurice Benyovszky, William Jones, and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. After him are George XII of Georgia, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Infanta Benedita of Portugal, Tiradentes, and Izabela Czartoryska. Among people deceased in 1822, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 11. Before him are Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, René Just Haüy, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. After him are Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Paolo Ruffini, Jean-Robert Argand, Karl August von Hardenberg, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, and Valentin Haüy.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 1,419 out of 5,161. Before him are Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1870), Johnny Torrio (1882), Galeria Valeria (300), Tatiana of Rome (200), Saint Susanna (280), and Norberto Bobbio (1909). After him are Cosimo Tura (1430), Giovanni Papini (1881), Alessandro Costacurta (1966), Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry (1798), Marco Ferreri (1928), and Francesco Durante (1684).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 10. Before him are Luigi Galvani (1737), Emilio Segrè (1905), Laura Bassi (1711), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), and Carlo Rubbia (1934). After him are Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Galileo Ferraris (1847), Federico Faggin (1941), and Bruno Rossi (1905).

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