Luigi Puccianti Explained

Luigi Puccianti
Birth Date:11 June 1875
Birth Place:Pisa, Italy
Death Place:Pisa, Italy
Fields:Physicist
Alma Mater:University of Pisa
Doctoral Advisor:Angelo Battelli
Doctoral Students:Enrico Fermi, Anna Maria Ciccone

Luigi Puccianti (pronounced as /it/; 11 June 1875 – 9 June 1952) was an Italian physicist.[1]

Career

In 1899–1900, Puccianti constructed a highly sensitive spectrograph, with which he studied the infrared absorption of many compounds and attempted to correlate the spectra with molecular structure.[2] [3] He studied the emission spectra of metals and halogens and proposed measuring the wavelength of X-rays by using a diffraction grating at large angles of incidence.

Puccianti was, at one time, the academic advisor to Nobel prize winner Enrico Fermi. He once said there was little he could teach Fermi, and often asked Fermi to teach him something instead.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Polvani . G. . Mots de commémoration prononcés a la nouvelle de la mort du Prof. Luigi Puccianti . Il Nuovo Cimento . Il Nuovo Cimento (1943-1954) . 11 February 2021 . 478–479 . it . 10.1007/BF02903418 . 1 March 1952. 9 . 120358078 .
  2. Book: Workman Jr. . Jerry . Weyer . Lois . Practical Guide to Interpretive Near-Infrared Spectroscopy . 2007 . CRC Press . 978-1-4200-1831-8 . 107 . 11 February 2021 . en.
  3. Book: Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards . 1938 . U.S. Government Printing Office . 131 . 11 February 2021 . en.
  4. Book: Segrè . Emilio . Enrico Fermi : physicist . 19 October 1970 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . 978-0-226-74472-8 . 15–18 . 11 February 2021.