1618 - 1663
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 119,739 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Francesco Maria Grimaldi is the 209th most popular physicist (up from 214th in 2019), the 989th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,004th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Italian Physicist.
Francesco Maria Grimaldi is most famous for his discovery of the diffraction of light.
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Among physicists, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 209 out of 717. Before him are Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Armen Sarkissian, Roy J. Glauber, Kai Siegbahn, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, and Herbert Kroemer. After him are Simon van der Meer, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Vitaly Ginzburg, Max Delbrück, George E. Smith, and David Brewster.
1933 - Present
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 203
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 204
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 205
1918 - 2007
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 206
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 207
1928 - Present
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 208
1618 - 1663
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 209
1925 - 2011
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 210
1930 - Present
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 211
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 212
1906 - 1981
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 213
1930 - Present
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 214
1781 - 1868
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 215
Among people born in 1618, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 2. Before him is Aurangzeb. After him are Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Jeremiah Horrocks, Hishikawa Moronobu, François Pierre La Varenne, François Blondel, Jan Dirksz Both, Juraj Križanić, Peter Lely, Michiel Sweerts, and Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy. Among people deceased in 1663, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 3. Before him are Joseph of Cupertino and Christine of France. After him are Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern, Heinrich Scheidemann, and Giancarlo de' Medici.
1618 - 1707
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 1
1618 - 1663
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 2
1618 - 1680
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 3
1618 - 1641
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 4
1618 - 1694
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 5
1618 - 1678
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 6
1618 - 1686
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 7
1618 - 1652
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 8
1618 - 1683
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 9
1618 - 1680
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 10
1618 - 1664
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 11
1618 - 1693
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 12
1603 - 1663
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 1
1606 - 1663
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 2
1618 - 1663
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 3
1583 - 1663
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 4
1635 - 1663
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 5
1629 - 1663
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 6
1625 - 1663
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 7
1596 - 1663
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 8
1611 - 1663
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 9
Among people born in Italy, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 989 out of 4,668. Before him are Melania the Younger (383), Masolino da Panicale (1383), Antipope Nicholas V (1260), Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (1870), Giuseppe Guarneri (1698), and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo (5). After him are Flavio Briatore (1950), Sandro Pertini (1896), Maurizio Sarri (1959), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Francesco Cossiga (1928), and Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400).
383 - 439
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 983
1383 - 1447
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 984
1260 - 1333
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 985
1870 - 1899
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 986
1698 - 1744
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 987
5 - 67
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 988
1618 - 1663
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 989
1950 - Present
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 990
1896 - 1990
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 991
1959 - Present
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 992
1608 - 1679
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 993
1928 - 2010
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 994
1400 - 1475
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 995
Among physicists born in Italy, Francesco Maria Grimaldi ranks 8. Before him are Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Laura Bassi (1711), Emilio Segrè (1905), and Giorgio Parisi (1948). After him are Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Galileo Ferraris (1847), and Giovanni Aldini (1762).
1608 - 1647
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 2
1901 - 1954
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 3
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 4
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 5
1905 - 1989
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 7
1618 - 1663
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 8
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 9
1746 - 1822
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 10
1934 - Present
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 11
1913 - 1993
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 12
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 13
1762 - 1834
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 14