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Fabiola Gianotti

1960 - Today

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Fabiola Gianotti (Italian: [faˈbiːola dʒaˈnɔtti]; born 29 October 1960) is an Italian experimental particle physicist who is the current and first woman Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. Her first mandate began on 1 January 2016 and ran for a period of five years. At its 195th Session in 2019, the CERN Council selected Gianotti for a second term as Director-General. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fabiola Gianotti has received more than 356,401 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Fabiola Gianotti is the 413th most popular physicist (up from 570th in 2019), the 2,173rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,084th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Physicist.

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  • 360k

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  • 55.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Fabiola Gianotti has had the most page views in the with 50,580 views, followed by English (38,244), and Spanish (8,915). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Croatian (269.41%), Latvian (131.69%), and Southern Azerbaijani (121.29%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Fabiola Gianotti ranks 413 out of 851. Before her are John Dollond, Edwin Hall, Stefan Hell, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Vladimir Chelomey, and Henri Tresca. After her are Robert Serber, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Evelyn Fox Keller, Yulii Khariton, Arpad Elo, and Leonard Susskind.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Fabiola Gianotti ranks 97. Before her are Melissa Leo, Merlene Ottey, Gjorge Ivanov, Kevin Carter, Ersin Tatar, and Takashi Miike. After her are Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Kim Wilde, Susanne Bier, Axel Rudi Pell, Marcel Koller, and Abdellatif Kechiche.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Fabiola Gianotti ranks 2,173 out of 5,161. Before her are William II, Duke of Apulia (1095), Alfenus Varus (-100), Catherine of Ricci (1522), Girolamo Priuli (1486), Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1594), and Titus Lartius (-600). After her are Lina Cavalieri (1874), Mitja Ribičič (1919), Ottaviano Petrucci (1466), Leopold, Prince of Salerno (1790), Gloria Guida (1955), and William of Modena (1184).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Fabiola Gianotti ranks 15. Before her are Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Galileo Ferraris (1847), and Carlo Matteucci (1811). After her are Federico Faggin (1941), Bruno Rossi (1905), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Giovanni Aldini (1762), and Carlo Rovelli (1956).

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