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Michele Alberto Bancalari (1805–1864) was professor of natural philosophy at the University of Genoa. In 1847, he discovered that flames were diamagnetic by showing that there were repulsed by a strong magnetic field.

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1. Boato, Giovanni; Moro, Natalia (July 1994). "Bancalari's role in Faraday's discovery of diamagnetism and the successive progress in the understanding of magnetic properties of matter". Annals of Science. 51 (4): 391–412. doi:10.1080/00033799400200321. ISSN 0003-3790. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
2. Stevenson, R. L. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
3. Potamian, Br (1913) "Francesco Zantedeschi", Catholic Encyclopaedia

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