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Francesco Maria Grimaldi

1618 - 1663

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Francesco Maria Grimaldi, SJ (2 April 1618 – 28 December 1663) was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesco Maria Grimaldi has received more than 129,988 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Francesco Maria Grimaldi is the 201st most popular physicist (up from 209th in 2019), the 858th most popular biography from Italy (up from 986th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Physicist.

Francesco Maria Grimaldi is most famous for his discovery of the diffraction of light.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 201 out of 851. Before him are Herbert Kroemer, Edward Mills Purcell, Steven Weinberg, Ilya Frank, Anton Zeilinger, and Pyotr Kapitsa. After him are Michio Kaku, David J. Wineland, Mihajlo Pupin, Alain Aspect, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, and Robert Hofstadter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 2. Before him is Aurangzeb. After him are Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Hishikawa Moronobu, Ivan Bohun, François Pierre La Varenne, François Blondel, Peter Lely, Jan Dirksz Both, Jeremiah Horrocks, Juraj Križanić, and Michiel Sweerts. Among people deceased in 1663, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 2. Before him is Joseph of Cupertino. After him are Christine of France, Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern, Heinrich Scheidemann, Giancarlo de' Medici, and Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 858 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498), Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (-84), Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (1726), Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (-519), Andrea Camilleri (1925), and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (200). After him are Salvator Rosa (1615), Gentile da Fabriano (1370), Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776), Tarcisio Bertone (1934), Francesca Caccini (1587), and Scholastica (480).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 7. Before him are Alessandro Volta (1745), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Laura Bassi (1711), and Emilio Segrè (1905). After him are Carlo Rubbia (1934), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), and Galileo Ferraris (1847).

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