Francesco Rossetti
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Francesco Rossetti was a notable Italian experimental physicist.

Son of Giovanni Battista, he started his education in his natal town Trento. He then attended the University of Padova and, from 1854 to 1857, the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

, where he heard classes in mathematics, chemistry and physics, and graduated in physics and mathematics. Among his fellow students there were Josef Stefan (future supervisor of Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics...

) and Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves...

. In 1857 he became a teacher at the Liceo di Santa Caterina in Venice
Venice
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. In 1860 he was hired by the University of Padova. Having obtained a year's leave by the Austrian government, he spent 1864 in Paris
Paris
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 working in the laboratory of the physicist and chemist Henri-Victor Regnault. In 1866 he became extraordinary professor and in 1880 full professor of experimental physics at the University of Padova. He has been the dean of the faculty of science from 1876 to 1885. He has been member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1879, of the National Lincei Academy
Accademia dei Lincei
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 since 1882, and of other important Italian and international scientific academies and societies.

His scientific activity mainly concerned electrostatics
Electrostatics
Electrostatics is the branch of physics that deals with the phenomena and properties of stationary or slow-moving electric charges....

, electrochemistry
Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies chemical reactions which take place in a solution at the interface of an electron conductor and an ionic conductor , and which involve electron transfer between the electrode and the electrolyte or species in solution.If a chemical reaction is...

, and thermometry of flames. He published 42 papers. In 1862 he was the doctoral advisor of Andrea Naccari
Andrea Naccari
Andrea Naccari is notable for his study of the thermoelectric properties of metals, the photoelectric effect of metals immersed in liquids, and the electrical conductivity of gases and liquid dielectrics...

.

Main works by Rossetti

  • Sull'uso delle coppie termoelettriche nella misura delle temperature 1867.
  • Sul maximum di densità e sulla dilatazione dell'acqua distillata, dell'acqua dell'Adriatico e di alcune soluzioni saline 1868.
  • Sul magnetismo 1871.
  • Uso della macchina di Holtz in alcune ricerche elettrometriche sui condensatori elettrici 1872.
  • Sul potere specifico induttivo dei coibenti 1873.
  • Nuovi studii sulle correnti delle macchine elettriche 1874.
  • Sulla quantita di lavoro che viene utilizzato nello elettromotore di Holtz 1874.
  • Indagini sperimentali sulla temperatura del sole 1878.
  • Sul potere assorbente, sul potere emissivo termico delle fiamme e sulla temperatura dell'arco voltaico 1878.

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