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Augusto Righi

1850 - 1920

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Augusto Righi (27 August 1850 – 8 June 1920) was an Italian physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augusto Righi has received more than 62,963 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Augusto Righi is the 555th most popular physicist (down from 532nd in 2019), the 3,120th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,917th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Augusto Righi ranks 555 out of 851. Before him are Theodore Lyman IV, David Deutsch, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Georg Hermann Quincke, Albert Betz, and Leopoldo Nobili. After him are John G. Trump, Paul Davies, Joseph Larmor, Pierre Weiss, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, and Matvei Bronstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Augusto Righi ranks 72. Before him are Tarabai Shinde, Bharatendu Harishchandra, Anastasia Golovina, Amélie Lundahl, Adolf Martens, and Anton Seidl. After him are Spencer Gore, Woldemar Voigt, Richard Heuberger, George Huntington, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, and Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau. Among people deceased in 1920, Augusto Righi ranks 81. Before him are Wilhelm Pfeffer, Olive Thomas, Nasrullah Khan, Pál Szinyei Merse, Jaan Poska, and Nataliya Kobrynska. After him are John Gilbert Baker, Ömer Seyfettin, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Luc-Olivier Merson, Arturo Soria y Mata, and Heinrich Lammasch.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Augusto Righi ranks 3,120 out of 5,161. Before him are Gimax (1938), Leonardo Murialdo (1828), Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1855), Giuseppe Signori (1968), Lucrezia Marinella (1571), and Antonio Bertoloni (1775). After him are Florentino Ameghino (1853), Carlo Ubbiali (1929), David Rizzio (1533), Remmius Palaemon (100), Debora Caprioglio (1968), and Giulia Lama (1681).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Augusto Righi ranks 28. Before him are Richard Mollier (1863), Giovanni Poleni (1683), Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), Nicola Cabibbo (1935), and Macedonio Melloni (1798). After him are Antonio Pacinotti (1841), Giuseppe Occhialini (1907), Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), Franco Rasetti (1901), Bruno Zumino (1923), and Giovanni Giorgi (1871).

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