- Carlo Marangoni
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name = Carlo Giuseppe Matteo Marangoni
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birth_date = birth date|1840|04|29|df=y
birth_place =Pavia ,Italy
death_date = death date and age|1925|04|14|1840|04|29|df=y
death_place =Florence ,Italy
residence =Italy
citizenship =Italy
field =physicist meteorologist
work_institutions = Liceo Dante, Florence
alma_mater = Università degli Studi di Pavia
doctoral_advisor = Prof. Cantoni
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known_for =fluids ,capillary ,surface tension
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footnotes =Carlo Giuseppe Matteo Marangoni (*
April 29 1840 inPavia ; †April 14 1925 inFlorence ) was an Italianphysicist .Marangoni graduated in 1865 from the
University of Pavia , under the supervision of Professor Cantoni, with a dissertation entitled "Sull' espansione delle goccie liquide".He them moved to
Florence where he first worked at the "Museo di Fisica" (1866) and later at the Liceo Dante (1870), where he held a position of High School Physics Teacher for 45 years, until retirement in 1916.He mainly studied surface phenomena in liquids, and the
Marangoni effect and theMarangoni number are named after him. He also contributed to meteorology and invented a "Nefoscopio" to observe clouds.External links
* [http://fisicavolta.unipv.it/percorsi/pdf/Marangonicom.PDF Marangoni Obituary (in italian)] (A list of Marangoni's publications are included in this obituary.)
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