NRC-8, EuCheMS International Conference on Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Session

Lectio Magistralis

LM

16 Sept 2012, 18:00

Como, Italy

0. LECTIO MAGISTRALIS - Chemistry in Italy during the late 18^th and 19^th Centuries

Prof. Ignazio Renato Bellobono

16/09/2012, 18:00

Invited Lecture

In the first part of the presentation, the birth of ELECTROCHEMISTRY (1799-1800; March 20^th, 1800) and the entirely innovative work of Alessandro Volta, based on the conversion of chemical into electrochemical energy, by what will be called pila di Volta (electrochemical cell), followed by the reverse process studied by Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli (electrolysis...