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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 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Fabiola Gianotti is the 570th most popular physicist (up from 608th in 2019), the 3,094th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,082nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Fabiola Gianotti ranks 570 out of 717Before her are James Hansen, Gustav Mie, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Ludvig Faddeev, Lev Artsimovich, and Francis Hauksbee. After her are Yakov Frenkel, Alfred Perot, Emil Warburg, José Celestino Mutis, Victor J. Stenger, and Burkhard Heim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Fabiola Gianotti ranks 174Before her are Maurizio Cattelan, Chris Waddle, Barbara Broccoli, Jan Wouters, Daniel Silva, and Buster Douglas. After her are BD Wong, Matt Sorum, Uwe Bein, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Stefan Yanev, and Christian Petzold.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Fabiola Gianotti ranks 3,094 out of 4,668Before her are Claudia Muzio (1889), Michele Amari (1806), Marcello Abbado (1926), Vincent Gardenia (1920), Giuseppe Cavanna (1905), and Angelo Peruzzi (1970). After her are Alois Riehl (1844), Marino Basso (1945), Ippolito Nievo (1831), Piero Toscani (1904), Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus (-300), and Publius Decius Mus (-400).

Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Fabiola Gianotti ranks 30Before her are Nicola Cabibbo (1935), Macedonio Melloni (1798), Carlo Rovelli (1956), Augusto Righi (1850), Antonio Pacinotti (1841), and Giuseppe Occhialini (1907). After her are Giovanni Giorgi (1871), Franco Rasetti (1901), Tullio Regge (1931), Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), Bruno Zumino (1923), and Gian Francesco Giudice (1961).