Leopoldo Nobili
Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist Leopoldo Nobili, born on 5 July 1784<ref name=Trecc>Template:Cite web</ref> in Trassilico (Toscana) and died on 22 August 1835<ref name=Trecc /> in Florence, was an Italian physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry.
Born Trassilico, Garfagnana, after attending the Military Academy of Modena he became an artillery officer. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his service in Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
In 1825 he developed the astatic galvanometer.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> {{#invoke:Gallery|gallery}}
He worked with Macedonio Melloni on the thermomultiplier, a combination of thermopile and galvanometer,<ref>See:
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- Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Barr, E. S. (1962). The infrared pioneers—II. Macedonio Melloni. Infrared Physics, 2(2), 67-74.</ref> before being appointed professor of physics<ref>Goethe's Theory of Colours, Part II: Physical Colours, Eastlake's Note R</ref> at the Reale Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale (Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History) in Florence where he worked with Vincenzo Antinori on electromagnetic induction.
He was also credited with the discovery of 'Nobili's Rings'. "When a dilute solution of copper acetate is placed on a bright silverplate and a strip of zinc is touched to the silver beneath the copper, a series of rings of copper are formed by electrolysis around the zinc."<ref>Thomas O'Conor Sloane, The Standard Electrical Dictionary: A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms, London 1898, p. 392</ref>
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