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Alessandro Volta

Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity

1745 - 1827

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His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2024). Alessandro Volta is the 11th most popular physicist (down from 8th in 2024), the 45th most popular biography from Italy (down from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Italian Physicist.

Alessandro Volta is most famous for his voltaic pile, which was the first battery.

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Alessandro Volta is the most memorable of the 20 notable people born in Como, in what is now modern-day Italy.

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Of the 39 Physicists born in Italy, Alessandro Volta ranks first.

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Of the 55 people in Pantheon born in 1745, Alessandro Volta is the most memorable.

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Alessandro Volta's biography appears in 107 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 97% of all Physicists.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Alessandro Volta ranks 11 out of 851. Before him are Stephen Hawking, Wilhelm Röntgen, Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, and Max Planck. After him are Albert A. Michelson, Pierre Curie, André-Marie Ampère, Evangelista Torricelli, Erwin Schrödinger, and Henri Becquerel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Alessandro Volta ranks 1. After him are John Jay, Mikhail Kutuzov, Maria Luisa of Spain, Philippe Pinel, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Johan Christian Fabricius, Carl Stamitz, Levin August von Bennigsen, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Johann Hieronymus Schröter. Among people deceased in 1827, Alessandro Volta ranks 2. Before him is Ludwig van Beethoven. After him are Pierre-Simon Laplace, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, William Blake, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Maria Theresa of Austria, Wilhelm Hauff, Ugo Foscolo, Samuel Crompton, and Wilhelm Müller.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Volta ranks 45 out of 5,161. Before him are Caligula (12), Pope Pius X (1835), Pope Clement I (40), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Pope Benedict XV (1854), and Giacomo Puccini (1858). After him are Brutus the Younger (-85), Ötzi (-3345), Pope Urban VII (1521), Giotto (1267), Pope Clement VII (1478), and Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938).

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Among Physicists In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Alessandro Volta ranks 1. After him are Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Emilio Segrè (1905), Laura Bassi (1711), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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