Physicist, born near Reggio, Reggio nell'Emilia, N Italy. Ordained a priest (1769), he was appointed professor of geometry and philosophy at the University of Modena (1773), and later became professor of physics. His research concentrated on the flow of fluids, and he kept in close touch with the work of Bernoulli and Euler in fluid mechanics. He is remembered for his discovery of the Venturi effect, the decrease in the pressure of a fluid in a pipe where the diameter has been reduced by a gradual taper. The effect has many applications, such as in the carburettor and fluid-flow measuring instruments.
Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746 - 1822) was an Italian physicist.
He was ordained as a priest in 1769, appointed as a professor of geometry and philosophy at the university in 1773 and later became professor of physics.
He was a contemporary of Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli.
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