PHYSICIST

Evangelista Torricelli

1608 - 1647

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Evangelista Torricelli ( TORR-ee-CHEL-ee; Italian: [evandʒeˈlista torriˈtʃɛlli] ; 15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Evangelista Torricelli has received more than 797,180 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Evangelista Torricelli is the 17th most popular physicist, the 47th most popular biography from Italy (up from 53rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Physicist.

Torricelli is most famous for his invention of the barometer.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 17 out of 851. Before him are Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, James Prescott Joule, Robert Hooke, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Werner Heisenberg. After him are Henri Becquerel, Enrico Fermi, André-Marie Ampère, Erwin Schrödinger, Georg Ohm, and Christiaan Huygens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1608, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, John Milton, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Tukaram, Ivan Vyhovsky, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, António Vieira, and Pieter Post. Among people deceased in 1647, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 1. After him are Bonaventura Cavalieri, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Peter Mogila, Matthias Gallas, Giovanni Lanfranco, Zhang Xianzhong, Sebastiaen Vrancx, Masaniello, Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, and Zhu Yuyue.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 47 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope John Paul I (1912), Tiberius (-42), Donatello (1386), Florence Nightingale (1820), Empedocles (-490), and Gioachino Rossini (1792). After him are Pope Pius IX (1792), Pope John XXIII (1881), Fibonacci (1170), Pope Leo XIII (1810), Giacomo Casanova (1725), and Pope Clement VII (1478).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 2. Before him are Alessandro Volta (1745). After him are Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Laura Bassi (1711), Emilio Segrè (1905), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giorgio Parisi (1948), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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