Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari

Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari (25 July 1682 – 18 January 1766) was an Italian chemist, one of the leading scientists in Bologna in the first half of the eighteenth century. He is mainly known as the discoverer of the gluten in wheat flour.

Life
Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari was born in Bologna on 25 July 1682. In 1737 he was the first to give courses in chemistry at an Italian university. He carried out important research on the phosphorescence of bodies, and studied the measurement of the intensity of the light emitted (De rebus aliisque adamant in phosphorum numerum referendis, 1745). He also studied the action of light on silver salts (De vi, quam ipsa per se lux habet, non colores modo, sed etiam texturam rerum, salvis interdum coloribus, immutandi, 1757). From his comments on foraminifera he is considered as one of the pioneers of microbiology.

Working at the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute, Beccari looked for ways to make populations resistant to famine through a new type of emergency diet.

Beccari died in Bologna on 18 January 1766.

Works

 * De Bononiensi arena quadam, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1731, T. I, pp. 62-70;
 * De Lapide Bononiensi, ibid., T. I., pp. 181-205;
 * De motu intestino corporum fluidorum, ibid., T. I, pp. 483-496;
 * Lettera al Cav. Tommaso Derham intorno la meteora chiamata "foco fatuo", in Saggio delle transazioni filosofiche della Società Regia dall'anno 1720 fino a tutto l'anno 1730, tradotta da T. Derham, Napoli 1734;
 * Parere intorno al taglio della macchia di Viareggio, Lucca 1739;
 * De juribus variis, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1745, T. II, pp. 95-108;
 * De corporum dissolutionibus, ibid., T. II, pp. 112-117;
 * De frumento. De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium instituto atque academia commentarii. Tomi secundi, Pars prima, 1745, pp. 122-127,
 * De morbis quibusdam popularibus, ibid., T. II, pp. 219 s.;
 * De longa cibi potusque omnis abstinentia, ibid., T. II, pp. 221-235;
 * De luce dactylorum, ibid, T. II, pp. 248-273;
 * De adamante aliisque rebus in phosphororum numerum referendis, ibid., T. II, pp. 274-303;
 * De quamplurimis phosphoris nunc primum detectis commentarius, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1747, T. II, pp. 136-179;
 * De Bononiensi constitutione hyemali anni 1729/30 in Acta physico-medica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum, 1752, T. III, pp. 142-152;
 * De qualitatibus quibusdam, quae phosphororum luci obstant, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1755, T. III, pp. 105-113;
 * De medicatis recobarii aquis, ibid., T- III, pp. 374-405;
 * De vi, quam ipsa per se lux habet, non colores modo, sed etiam texturam rerum, salvis interdum coloribus, immutandi, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1757, T. IV, pp. 74-87;
 * De lacte, ibid., 1767, T. V, pp. 1-56;
 * Consulta medica, Tipografia San Tommaso D'Aquino, Bologna 1777-1781, 3 voll.