Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist, was born at Mondovì, and entered the religious Order of the Pious Schools or Piarists, in 1732, where he studied, and afterward taught, grammar and rhetoric. At the same time, he applied himself with success to mathematics.

Giglio Gregorio Giraldi

Giglio Gregorio Giraldi was an Italian scholar and poet

Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli

Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli was an Italian chemist and inventor who discovered the process for electroplating in 1805

Noël-Antoine Pluche

Noël-Antoine Pluche, known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest. He is now known for his Spectacle de la nature, a most popular work of natural history

James Bolton

James Bolton was an English naturalist, botanist, mycologist, and illustrator

Johann Christian Poggendorff

Johann Christian Poggendorff, was a German physicist born in Hamburg. By far the greater and more important part of his work related to electricity and magnetism. Poggendorff is known for his electrostatic motor which is analogous to Wilhelm Holtz's

Eustachio Divini

Eustachio Divini was an Italian manufacturer and experimenter of optical instruments for scientific use in Rome

Torbern Bergman

Torbern Olaf (Olof) Bergman (KVO) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc

Felice Fontana

Felice Fontana was an Italian physicist who discovered the water gas shift reaction in 1780. He is also credited with launching modern toxicology and investigating the human eye. He is also credited for discovering the nucleolus of a cell

Anton Brugmans

Anton Brugmans (1732–1789) was Dutch physicist who proposed a two-fluid theory of magnetism. He did magnetism experiments by putting objects on water or mercury, using surface tension to make them float and magnets to move them. He discovered the

Beth Killoran

Beth Anne Killoran is an American information technology executive and civil servant. She is the deputy chief information officer (CIO) of the General Services Administration. Killoran was previously the CIO of the United States Department of Health and