Luigi Puccianti
{{Short description|Italian physicist (1875–1952)}}
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|birth_date = 11 June 1875
|death_date = {{d-da|9 June 1952|11 June 1875}}
|death_place = Pisa, Italy
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|alma_mater = University of Pisa
|doctoral_advisor = Angelo Battelli
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|doctoral_students = Enrico Fermi, Anna Maria Ciccone
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Luigi Puccianti ({{IPA|it|luˈiːdʒi putˈtʃanti|lang}}; 11 June 1875 – 9 June 1952) was an Italian physicist.{{cite journal |last1=Polvani |first1=G. |title=Mots de commémoration prononcés a la nouvelle de la mort du Prof. Luigi Puccianti |journal=Il Nuovo Cimento |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02903418 |publisher=Il Nuovo Cimento (1943-1954) |access-date=11 February 2021 |pages=478–479 |language=it |doi=10.1007/BF02903418 |date=1 March 1952|volume=9 |s2cid=120358078 }}
Career
In 1899–1900, Puccianti constructed a highly sensitive spectrograph, with which he studied the infrared absorption of many compounds and attempted to correlate the spectra with molecular structure.{{cite book |last1=Workman Jr. |first1=Jerry |last2=Weyer |first2=Lois |title=Practical Guide to Interpretive Near-Infrared Spectroscopy |date=2007 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-4200-1831-8 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJZYWo7gUN8C&pg=PA107 |access-date=11 February 2021 |language=en}}{{cite book |title=Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards |date=1938 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vhkt9kBS8IC&pg=PA131 |access-date=11 February 2021 |language=en}} He studied the emission spectra of metals and halogens and proposed measuring the wavelength of X-rays by using a diffraction grating at large angles of incidence.
Puccianti was, at one time, the academic advisor to Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi. He once said there was little he could teach Fermi, and often asked Fermi to teach him something instead.{{cite book |last1=Segrè |first1=Emilio |title=Enrico Fermi : physicist |date=19 October 1970 |publisher=Chicago : University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-74472-8 |pages=15–18 |url=https://archive.org/details/enricofermiphysi0000segr_q1u1 |access-date=11 February 2021}}
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