About Orso Mario Corbino
Lived 1876 – 1937 (aged 60). Orso Mario Corbino was an Italian physicist, university teacher, politician and minister.
Orso Mario Corbino (30 April 1876 – 23 January 1937) was an Italian physicist and politician. He is noted for his studies of the influence of external magnetic fields on the motion of electrons in metals and he discovered the Corbino effect. He served as Minister for education in 1921–1922 and as Minister for National Economy in 1923–1924. He also served as professor of the University of Messina and of the University of Rome (1908). He was also the supervisor of the Via Panisperna boys (including Enrico Fermi).
Life His younger brother was Epicarmo Corbino.
Corbino graduated from the University of Palermo at the age of 20.
In 1911 he discovered the Corbino effect, a variant of the Hall effect.
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Who was Orso Mario Corbino?
Italian physicist (1876-1937)
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Orso Mario Corbino was born on 30 April 1876 in Augusta.
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Orso Mario Corbino died on 23 January 1937 in Rome.
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Orso Mario Corbino was a physicist, university teacher, politician and minister.
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Orso Mario Corbino was Italian.
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