Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti | |
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 Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti | |
| Born | (1791-04-18)18 April 1791 |
| Died | 20 March 1863(1863-03-20) (aged 71) |
| Known for | Clausius–Mossotti relation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics,Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Vincenzo Brunacci |
| Doctoral students | Enrico Betti |
Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti (18 April 1791 – 20 March 1863) was an Italianphysicist who was exiled from Italy for hisliberal ideas. During theFirst Italian War of Independence, he led a "battalion of students", part of a delegation from theGrand Duchy of Tuscany. He later taughtastronomy andphysics at theUniversity of Buenos Aires. His name is associated with a type of multiple-elementlens for correctingspherical aberration andcoma, but notchromatic aberration. His studies on dielectrics led to important results: theClausius-Mossotti formula is partly named after him, and his views on dielectric behaviour helped leadJames Clerk Maxwell to devise his theory of thedisplacement current, which led in turn to the theoretical prediction ofelectromagnetic waves.[1]
Mossotti was chair of experimental physics in Buenos Aires (1827–1835) and taught numerous Argentinian physicians his views ondielectrics, thereby becoming influential on the Argentine-Germanneurobiological tradition regarding electricity inside brain tissue. Later (after 1906), these views influenced this tradition's models ofstationary waves in theinterference of neural activity for short-term memory. Mossotti later returned to Italy and participated in military actions while in his sixties, and was appointed as a senator. In Italy, Mossotti taught more than five hundred mathematical students. His work also influencedHendrik Antoon Lorentz's views onfundamental forces.
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