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Galileo Ferraris

1847 - 1897

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Galileo Ferraris (31 October 1847 – 7 February 1897) was an Italian university professor, physicist and electrical engineer, one of the pioneers of AC power system and inventor of the induction motor although he never patented his work. Many newspapers touted that his work on the induction motor and power transmission systems were some of the greatest inventions of all ages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Galileo Ferraris has received more than 199,673 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Galileo Ferraris is the 351st most popular physicist (down from 303rd in 2019), the 1,806th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,523rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Italian Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

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  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Galileo Ferraris ranks 351 out of 717. Before him are Edward Witten, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Henri Pitot, George Johnstone Stoney, and Léon Brillouin. After him are Hans Kramers, William Sturgeon, Luis Walter Alvarez, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Walter H. Schottky, and Robert B. Laughlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Galileo Ferraris ranks 28. Before him are Paul Langerhans, Bolesław Prus, Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Nikolay Zhukovsky, John Bates Clark, and Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Jacob Schiff, Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, Alexander Lodygin, Adolf von Hildebrand, and Robert Fuchs. Among people deceased in 1897, Galileo Ferraris ranks 24. Before him are Andrés Bonifacio, Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Giuseppina Strepponi, and Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie. After him are Alexei Savrasov, Viktor Meyer, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Minna Canth, Stanislas de Guaita, and George Pullman.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Galileo Ferraris ranks 1,806 out of 4,668. Before him are Giovanni Mocenigo (1409), Nereo Rocco (1912), Cesare Zavattini (1902), Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona (1775), Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1629), and Tonino Guerra (1920). After him are Corax of Syracuse (-500), Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus (-180), Giuditta Pasta (1797), Elio de Angelis (1958), Ettore Bastico (1876), and Lucius Licinius Crassus (-140).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Galileo Ferraris ranks 13. Before him are Giorgio Parisi (1948), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Carlo Rubbia (1934), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913). After him are Giovanni Aldini (1762), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Federico Faggin (1941), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), and Bruno Rossi (1905).

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