The Most Famous
GEOLOGISTS from Italy
This page contains a list of the greatest Italian Geologists. The pantheon dataset contains 59 Geologists, 3 of which were born in Italy. This makes Italy the birth place of the 7th most number of Geologists behind Russia and Canada.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Italian Geologists of all time. This list of famous Italian Geologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Giuseppe Mercalli (1850 - 1914)
With an HPI of 56.62, Giuseppe Mercalli is the most famous Italian Geologist. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Giuseppe Mercalli (21 May 1850 – 19 March 1914) was an Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest. He is known best for the Mercalli intensity scale for measuring earthquake intensity.
2. Giovanni Arduino (1714 - 1795)
With an HPI of 49.06, Giovanni Arduino is the 2nd most famous Italian Geologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Giovanni Arduino (16 October 1714 – 21 March 1795) was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology". Arduino was born at Caprino Veronese, Veneto. He was a mining specialist who developed possibly the first classification of geological time, based on study of the geology of northern Italy. He divided the history of the Earth into four periods: Primitive, Secondary, Tertiary, and Volcanic, or Quaternary. The scheme proposed by Arduino in 1759, which was based on much study of rocks of the southern Alps, grouped the rocks into four series. These were (in addition to the Volcanic or Quaternary) as follows: the Primary series, which consisted of schists from the core of the mountains; the Secondary, which consisted of the hard sedimentary rocks on the mountain flanks; and the Tertiary, which consisted of the less hardened sedimentary rocks of the foothills. Because this arrangement did not always hold true for mountain ranges other than the Alps, the Primary and the Secondary were dropped in the general case. However, the term 'Tertiary' has persisted in geological literature until its recent replacement by the Palaeogene and Neogene periods. The last period of the Cenozoic Era is still known as the Quaternary period. The Cenozoic was studied and further determined by, among others, the English geologist (and mentor of Charles Darwin) Charles Lyell. Giovanni Arduino died in Venice in 1795. The lunar ridge Dorsum Arduino is named after him.
3. Luigi Palmieri (1807 - 1896)
With an HPI of 47.47, Luigi Palmieri is the 3rd most famous Italian Geologist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Luigi Palmieri (22 April 1807 – 9 September 1896) was an Italian physicist and meteorologist. He was famous for his scientific studies of the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, for his researches on earthquakes and meteorological phenomena and for improving the seismograph of the time.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as geologists born between 1714 and 1850. Of these 3, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geologists include Giuseppe Mercalli, Giovanni Arduino, and Luigi Palmieri.
Deceased Geologists
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Giuseppe Mercalli
1850 - 1914
HPI: 56.62
Giovanni Arduino
1714 - 1795
HPI: 49.06
Luigi Palmieri
1807 - 1896
HPI: 47.47
Which Geologists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Geologists since 1700.
