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 contemporary of Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli, and 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 became a professor of geometry and philosophy at the University of Modena, where in 1776 he became professor of physics.

Venturi was the first to call attention to the importance of Leonardo da Vinci as a scientist, and compiled and published many Galileo's manuscripts and letters.

He died at Reggio Emilia in 1822.