# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T16:13:44.061Z

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description: "He built the first barometer — not just a weather gadget, but proof that air has weight and the void above it isn't impossible. That 1643 tube of mercury broke two thousand years of Aristotle and handed science a tool it still uses."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 15 October 1608, Torricelli studied under Benedetto Castelli and made his name young in mathematics and physics. In 1643 he inverted a glass tube filled with mercury into a dish and watched it settle at a fixed height — the column held up by atmospheric pressure, the space above it a vacuum. The experiment answered why water pumps failed past a certain depth and introduced the barometer to the world. He also advanced optics and contributed to the method of indivisibles, a precursor to calculus. He died 25 October 1647, nine days past his thirty-ninth birthday; the unit of pressure, the torr, carries his name.