Evangelista Torricelli
Awards & Honours
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Awards Won
5
Honours
2
Records
Torricelli's recognition is of the durable, institutional kind. The unit of pressure, the torr, carries his name and is still used in vacuum science. The Premio Evangelista Torricelli is an ongoing engineering award. The Museo Galileo in Florence mounted a tribute exhibition in 2024. Schools in Ravenna and Bolzano bear his name, and a Brin-class Italian submarine named Torricelli appears in the game Azur Lane. None of this is a prize he collected; it is a name that stayed attached to the things he made.
Honours & Distinctions
Unit of pressure named the torr
The torr, defined as 1/760 of a standard atmosphere, is named after Torricelli.
Premio Evangelista Torricelli
An ongoing engineering prize named in his honour.
Museo Galileo tribute exhibition
"Horror vacui? Vacuum between Imagination and Science: A Tribute to Evangelista Torricelli", reported 29 May 2024.
Schools named after him
Italian secondary schools carry his name.
Submarine Torricelli in Azur Lane
A Brin-class Italian submarine named Torricelli appears as a character, the first Italian submarine added to the game.
Records & Feats
Inventor of the mercury barometer
Built the first mercury barometer around 1643, giving meteorology its first instrument for measuring air pressure.
Discovery of the Torricelli vacuum
Observed and explained the empty space at the top of the mercury column, a direct challenge to the doctrine that nature abhors a vacuum.