Adolfo Bartoli

Adolfo Bartoli (March 19, 1851 – July 18, 1896) was an Italian physicist, who is best known for introducing the concept of radiation pressure from thermodynamical considerations. Born at Florence, Bartoli studied physics and mathematics at the University of Pisa until 1874. He was professor of physics at the Technical Institute of Arezzo from 1876, at the University of Sassari from 1878, at the Technical Institute of Firenze from 1879, at the University of Catania from 1886 to 1893, and at the University of Pavia from 1893. In 1874 James Clerk Maxwell found out that the existence of tensions in the ether, in other words radiation pressure, follows from his electromagnetic theory. In 1876 Bartoli derived the existence of radiation...