Giovanni Battista Venturi

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Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746 - 1822) was an Italian physicist. He was the discoverer and eponym of Venturi effect. He was also the eponym of the Venturi pump and Venturi tube.

Born in Bibbiano, he was a pupil of Lazzaro Spallanzani. He was ordained as a priest in 1769, and in the same year appointed as a teacher of logic at the seminary of Reggio Emilia. In 1774 he is professor of geometry and philosophy at the University of Modena, where in 1776 he became professor of physics.

He was a contemporary of Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli. He died at Reggio Emilia.