Carlo Matteucci
1811–68
Italian physiologist and physicist. Studied at the University of Bologna, 1825–8; took a degree in physics. Studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1829–30. Professor of physics, University of Pisa, from 1840. Worked on electrical discharge in torpedoes and frogs, and proved that electrical current was generated by injured tissues.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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