1608 - 1647
Evangelista Torricelli ( TORR-ee-CHEL-ee, also US: TOR-, Italian: [evandʒeˈlista torriˈtʃɛlli] (listen); 15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Evangelista Torricelli has received more than 505,783 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Evangelista Torricelli is the 16th most popular physicist (up from 17th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Italy (up from 64th 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, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 16 out of 721. Before him are James Prescott Joule, André-Marie Ampère, Ernest Rutherford, James Clerk Maxwell, Robert Hooke, and Werner Heisenberg. After him are Henri Becquerel, Christiaan Huygens, Georg Ohm, Erwin Schrödinger, Hans Christian Ørsted, and Heinrich Hertz.
1818 - 1889
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 10
1775 - 1836
HPI: 84.98
Rank: 11
1871 - 1937
HPI: 84.88
Rank: 12
1831 - 1879
HPI: 84.76
Rank: 13
1635 - 1703
HPI: 84.49
Rank: 14
1901 - 1976
HPI: 84.24
Rank: 15
1608 - 1647
HPI: 84.15
Rank: 16
1852 - 1908
HPI: 84.09
Rank: 17
1629 - 1695
HPI: 83.79
Rank: 18
1789 - 1854
HPI: 83.33
Rank: 19
1887 - 1961
HPI: 83.20
Rank: 20
1777 - 1851
HPI: 83.01
Rank: 21
1857 - 1894
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 22
Among people born in 1608, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 1. After him are John Milton, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Tukaram, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Ivan Vyhovsky, António Vieira, Eudoxia Streshneva, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, and Pieter Post. Among people deceased in 1647, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 1. After him are Bonaventura Cavalieri, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Matthias Gallas, Zhang Xianzhong, Peter Mogila, Giovanni Lanfranco, Masaniello, Sebastiaen Vrancx, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Pietro Carrera, and Christen Sørensen Longomontanus.
1608 - 1647
HPI: 84.15
Rank: 1
1608 - 1674
HPI: 79.75
Rank: 2
1608 - 1657
HPI: 79.38
Rank: 3
1608 - 1660
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 4
1608 - 1679
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 5
1608 - 1650
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 6
1608 - 1657
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 7
1608 - 1664
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 8
1608 - 1697
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 9
1608 - 1645
HPI: 64.99
Rank: 10
1608 - 1670
HPI: 64.78
Rank: 11
1608 - 1669
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 12
1608 - 1647
HPI: 84.15
Rank: 1
1598 - 1647
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 2
1584 - 1647
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 3
1584 - 1647
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 4
1606 - 1647
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 5
1596 - 1647
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 6
1582 - 1647
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 7
1620 - 1647
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 8
1573 - 1647
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 9
1581 - 1647
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 10
1573 - 1647
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 11
1562 - 1647
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 59 out of 4,088. Before him are Luciano Pavarotti (1935), Umberto Eco (1932), Romulus Augustulus (460), Vitruvius (-75), Benedict of Nursia (480), and Pope Clement VII (1478). After him are Pope John XXIII (1881), Guglielmo Marconi (1874), Fibonacci (1170), Livy (-59), Saint Valentine (226), and Amedeo Modigliani (1884).
1935 - 2007
HPI: 84.55
Rank: 53
1932 - 2016
HPI: 84.50
Rank: 54
460 - 527
HPI: 84.37
Rank: 55
75 BC - 15 BC
HPI: 84.28
Rank: 56
480 - 543
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 57
1478 - 1534
HPI: 84.19
Rank: 58
1608 - 1647
HPI: 84.15
Rank: 59
1881 - 1963
HPI: 84.03
Rank: 60
1874 - 1937
HPI: 84.02
Rank: 61
1170 - 1240
HPI: 84.01
Rank: 62
59 BC - 17
HPI: 83.97
Rank: 63
226 - 273
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 64
1884 - 1920
HPI: 83.91
Rank: 65
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), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Ettore Majorana (1906), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Galileo Ferraris (1847), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).
1745 - 1827
HPI: 86.22
Rank: 1
1608 - 1647
HPI: 84.15
Rank: 2
1901 - 1954
HPI: 82.49
Rank: 3
1737 - 1798
HPI: 81.27
Rank: 4
1711 - 1778
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 5
1905 - 1989
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 6
1618 - 1663
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 7
1746 - 1822
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 8
1906 - 1959
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 9
1934 - Present
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 10
1847 - 1897
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 11
1913 - 1993
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 12