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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 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Carlo Rovelli is the 482nd most popular physicist (up from 517th in 2019), the 2,629th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,854th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Italian Physicist.

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  • 730k

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  • 53.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Carlo Rovelli has had the most page views in the with 117,403 views, followed by Italian (76,464), and French (21,809). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Assamese (82.86%), Southern Azerbaijani (75.98%), and Catalan (67.33%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carlo Rovelli ranks 482 out of 851. Before him are Max Abraham, Ole Worm, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Emil Wiechert, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, and Yuri Orlov. After him are Marian Smoluchowski, Vilhelm Bjerknes, G. M. B. Dobson, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, John Leslie, and Martin Knudsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Carlo Rovelli ranks 142. Before him are Lesley Manville, Frank Arnesen, Kostas Karamanlis, Sinan Sakić, Abdalla Hamdok, and José Luis Brown. After him are Momir Bulatović, Johnny Cecotto, Franky Vercauteren, Kevin McNally, Gregg L. Semenza, and Akio Toyoda.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Rovelli ranks 2,629 out of 5,161. Before him are Ottavia Piccolo (1949), Pasquale Cicogna (1509), Thrasybulus of Syracuse (-500), Alexander of Bergamo (201), Marcantonio Trivisan (1475), and Fabrizio Ravanelli (1968). After him are Bernardo Dovizi (1470), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (-300), Contessina de' Bardi (1390), Gigi Proietti (1940), Tribuno Memmo (1000), and Francesco I Gonzaga (1366).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Carlo Rovelli ranks 21. Before him are Fabiola Gianotti (1960), Federico Faggin (1941), Bruno Rossi (1905), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), and Giovanni Aldini (1762). After him are Richard Mollier (1863), Giovanni Poleni (1683), Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), Nicola Cabibbo (1935), and Macedonio Melloni (1798).

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