PHYSICIST

Giovanni Battista Venturi

1746 - 1822

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Giovanni Battista Venturi (11 September 1746 – 10 September 1822) was an Italian physicist, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Battista Venturi has received more than 109,062 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Venturi is the 296th most popular physicist (down from 282nd in 2019), the 1,311th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,290th 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

Among physicists, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 296 out of 851. Before him are Anna Mani, Friedrich Hund, Anne L'Huillier, Nevill Francis Mott, Pascual Jordan, and Qian Xuesen. After him are Armen Sarkissian, John Tyndall, George Smoot, William Daniel Phillips, Freeman Dyson, and Andre Geim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 13. Before him are Giuseppe Piazzi, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Maurice Benyovszky, William Jones, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, and Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville. After him are George XII of Georgia, Tiradentes, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis. Among people deceased in 1822, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 10. Before him are Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claude Louis Berthollet, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. After him are Paolo Ruffini, René Just Haüy, Valentin Haüy, Karl August von Hardenberg, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, and Jean-Robert Argand.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 1,311 out of 5,161. Before him are Andrea Dandolo (1306), Lorenzo Buffon (1929), Authari (540), Cennino Cennini (1360), Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (1328), and Rodolfo Gucci (1912). After him are Antipope Felix II (300), Marino Faliero (1274), Timaeus (-350), Milo Manara (1945), Anna d'Este (1531), and Dion of Syracuse (-409).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Venturi ranks 10. Before him are Luigi Galvani (1737), Laura Bassi (1711), Emilio Segrè (1905), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Carlo Rubbia (1934), and Ettore Majorana (1906). After him are Giorgio Parisi (1948), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Galileo Ferraris (1847), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Fabiola Gianotti (1960), and Federico Faggin (1941).

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