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Carlo Rovelli

1956 - Today

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Carlo Rovelli (born 3 May 1956) is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States, France and, since 2020, in Canada. He is also currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University in Canada, and Fractal Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute in The United States. Rovelli works mainly in the field of quantum gravity and is a founder of loop quantum gravity theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlo Rovelli has received more than 730,570 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Carlo Rovelli is the 517th most popular physicist (up from 569th in 2019), the 2,860th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,934th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carlo Rovelli ranks 517 out of 717. Before him are Ira Sprague Bowen, Macedonio Melloni, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, August Beer, Leopoldo Nobili, and Mildred Dresselhaus. After him are Robert H. Dicke, Vladimir Steklov, Clarence Zener, Lester Germer, Max Wien, and Sergey Kapitsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Carlo Rovelli ranks 170. Before him are Nikolai Noskov, Roderick MacKinnon, Cynthia Rhodes, Herbert Grönemeyer, Arsenio Hall, and Elie Hobeika. After him are Val Valentino, David Card, Marta Kauffman, Laura Morante, Jerry Hall, and Chris Carter.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Rovelli ranks 2,860 out of 4,668. Before him are Davide Ghirlandaio (1452), Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714), Girolamo Diruta (1554), Nicolò Tron (1399), Giovanni della Casa (1503), and Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850). After him are Stefano Domenicali (1965), Marco Cé (1925), Radoald of Benevento (650), Giovanni da Udine (1487), Pierino Prati (1946), and Giuseppe Parini (1729).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Carlo Rovelli ranks 26. Before him are Richard Mollier (1863), Giovanni Poleni (1683), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), Nicola Cabibbo (1935), and Macedonio Melloni (1798). After him are Augusto Righi (1850), Antonio Pacinotti (1841), Giuseppe Occhialini (1907), Fabiola Gianotti (1960), Giovanni Giorgi (1871), and Franco Rasetti (1901).

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