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Authorised form of name	Beccari; Giacomo Bartolommeo (1682 - 1766)
Other forms of name	Iacopo Bartolommeo
Dates	1682 - 1766
Nationality	Italian
Place of birth	Bologna, Italy
Date of birth	25 July 1682
Place of death	Bologna, Italy
Date of death	? 19 January 1766
DatesAndPlaces	Burial: Church of the Baraccano
Occupation	Physician
Research field	Physiology
Research field	Chemistry
Activity	Education: Bologna; BA, MB (1704) Career: Lecturer in Logic at Bologna (1709); Professor of Theoretical Medicine (1712), then Professor of Practical Medicine at the University of Bologna; taught experimental physics (1714) and chemistry (1734) at the Academy of Bologna; Professor of Chemistry at the University (the first chair of chemistry in Italy) (1737-1749); declined the chair of medicine at Padau and the post of Chief Physician to Pope Benedict XIV Memberships: Accademia degli Inquieti; Istituto e Accademia bolognesi delle Scienze e delle Arte
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	27/06/1728
Proposer	Sir Thomas Dereham
	Sir Hans Sloane
	James Jurin
Relationships	Son of Romeo Beccari and his wife, Flaminia Vittoria Maccarini
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DBI; Hirsch References: Marta Cavazza, 'The Institute of Science of Bologna and the Royal Society in the eighteenth century' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 3-25, plate
Code	NA5687

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
RBO/13/43	Account of the aurora borealis witnessed at Florence on 19 October 1726 by Bartholomew Beccari	1728
LBO/19/100	Copy letter from Jacomo Bertolommeo Beccari, Bologna, to William Rutty	17 October 1728
EL/B3/2	Letter, from Eustachio Manfredi to Giacomo Bartolommeo Beccari, dated at Bologna	26 October 1728
EL/B3/1	Letter, from Giacomo Bartolommeo Beccari to William Rutty	1728
CLP/4i/79	Paper, regarding observations of the aurora borealis seen at Florence on 19 October 1726 by Signor Beccari	1728
EL/B3/3	Letter, from Giacomo Bartolommeo Beccari to Thomas Dereham, dated at Bologna	October 1728
EL/B3/4	Translation of a letter, from Giacomo Bartolommeo Beccari to Thomas Dereham, dated at Bologna	1728

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