Augusto Righi and the intuition of the experiment

Ingenious experimental physicist, talented professor and science communicator, committed Senator, Augusto Righi has been one of the greatest Italian physicists across two epochs of physics history – the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. By means of a close look into Righi’s most significant experiments, apparatuses and documents, the paper provides on overview on Righi’s major contributions to classical electromagnetism and structure of matter and sheds light on his peculiar “experimental intuition”