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Filippo Pacini

1812 - 1883

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Filippo Pacini (25 May 1812 – 9 July 1883) was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries 30 years later. Pacini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany, to Francesco, a humble cobbler, and Umiltà Dolfi, but was given a religious education in hopes that he would become a bishop. However, in 1830, he was given a scholarship to the most venerable medical school in Pistoia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Filippo Pacini has received more than 80,696 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Filippo Pacini is the 336th most popular physician (down from 328th in 2019), the 2,357th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,242nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Italian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Filippo Pacini ranks 336 out of 726. Before him are Tomáš Špidlík, Eugene Botkin, Gabor Maté, Jack Kevorkian, William Bates, and Realdo Colombo. After him are Victor Babeș, Mondino de Luzzi, Nikolai Korotkov, Paul Janssen, Thomas Szasz, and James Braid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Filippo Pacini ranks 35. Before him are Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, Zygmunt Krasiński, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Hendrik Conscience, Berthold Auerbach, and Henry Wilson. After him are Melchora Aquino, Augustus Pugin, Hermann von Fehling, Duke Peter of Oldenburg, Samuel Smiles, and Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst. Among people deceased in 1883, Filippo Pacini ranks 37. Before him are Iwakura Tomomi, Arnold Toynbee, Hendrik Conscience, Edward FitzGerald, Juliette Drouet, and Carl Wilhelm Siemens. After him are Jenny Longuet, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Gustave Aimard, Napoleon Orda, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, and Ciprian Porumbescu.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Filippo Pacini ranks 2,357 out of 5,161. Before him are Viktor Dankl von Krasnik (1854), Lamberto Maggiorani (1909), Luigi Longo (1900), Realdo Colombo (1516), Pierina Legnani (1863), and Medardo Rosso (1858). After him are Joseph Bonanno (1905), Eugenio Beltrami (1835), Elio Petri (1929), Renato Carosone (1920), Alberto Colombo (1946), and Perino del Vaga (1501).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Italy

Among physicians born in Italy, Filippo Pacini ranks 22. Before him are Alessandro Achillini (1463), Hieronymus Fabricius (1533), Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666), Saint Fabiola (400), Ennio Antonelli (1936), and Realdo Colombo (1516). After him are Mondino de Luzzi (1275), Prospero Alpini (1553), Luigi Carlo Farini (1812), Giorgio Biandrata (1515), Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (1883), and Dorotea Bucca (1360).

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