1745 - 1827
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (, Italian: [alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in 1800 in a two-part letter to the president of the Royal Society. With this invention Volta proved that electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated solely by living beings. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro Volta has received more than 2,535,686 page views. His biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Alessandro Volta is the 7th most popular physicist (up from 8th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Italy (up from 33rd 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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Among physicists, Alessandro Volta ranks 7 out of 717. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Stephen Hawking, Michael Faraday, and Wilhelm Röntgen. After him are Max Planck, Robert Hooke, Pierre Curie, Hans Christian Ørsted, James Prescott Joule, and André-Marie Ampère.
1643 - 1726
HPI: 98.35
Rank: 1
1879 - 1955
HPI: 93.06
Rank: 2
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.71
Rank: 3
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 4
1791 - 1867
HPI: 84.47
Rank: 5
1845 - 1923
HPI: 83.44
Rank: 6
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
Rank: 7
1858 - 1947
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 8
1635 - 1703
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 9
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 10
1777 - 1851
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 11
1818 - 1889
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 12
1775 - 1836
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 13
Among people born in 1745, Alessandro Volta ranks 1. After him are Mikhail Kutuzov, John Jay, Philippe Pinel, Maria Luisa of Spain, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Carl Stamitz, Levin August von Bennigsen, Andrianampoinimerina, Fyodor Ushakov, Valentin Haüy, and Johan Christian Fabricius. 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, Wilhelm Hauff, Samuel Crompton, Maria Theresa of Austria, Ugo Foscolo, and Ernst Chladni.
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
Rank: 1
1745 - 1813
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 2
1745 - 1829
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 3
1745 - 1826
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 4
1745 - 1792
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 5
1745 - 1761
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 6
1745 - 1801
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 7
1745 - 1826
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 8
1745 - 1810
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 9
1745 - 1817
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 10
1745 - 1822
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 11
1745 - 1808
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 12
1770 - 1827
HPI: 95.23
Rank: 1
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
Rank: 2
1749 - 1827
HPI: 77.98
Rank: 3
1746 - 1827
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 4
1757 - 1827
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 5
1788 - 1827
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 6
1750 - 1827
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 7
1802 - 1827
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 8
1753 - 1827
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 9
1767 - 1827
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 10
1778 - 1827
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 11
1756 - 1827
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Volta ranks 30 out of 4,668. Before him are Ovid (-43), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Marcus Aurelius (121), Petrarch (1304), Caligula (12), and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313). After him are Florence Nightingale (1820), Niccolò Paganini (1782), Parmenides (-501), Horace (-65), Giacomo Puccini (1858), and Titian (1488).
43 BC - 17
HPI: 84.24
Rank: 24
1445 - 1510
HPI: 83.90
Rank: 25
121 - 180
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 26
1304 - 1374
HPI: 83.55
Rank: 27
12 - 41
HPI: 83.19
Rank: 28
1313 - 1375
HPI: 83.11
Rank: 29
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
Rank: 30
1820 - 1910
HPI: 82.36
Rank: 31
1782 - 1840
HPI: 82.33
Rank: 32
501 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 33
65 BC - 8 BC
HPI: 82.14
Rank: 34
1858 - 1924
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 35
1488 - 1576
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 36
Among physicists born in Italy, Alessandro Volta ranks 1. After him are Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Laura Bassi (1711), Emilio Segrè (1905), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Carlo Rubbia (1934), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
Rank: 1
1608 - 1647
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 2
1901 - 1954
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 3
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 4
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 5
1905 - 1989
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 7
1618 - 1663
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 8
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 9
1746 - 1822
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 10
1934 - Present
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 11
1913 - 1993
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 12