1847 - 1897
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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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.
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 345
1891 - 1951
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 346
1700 - 1770
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 347
1695 - 1771
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 348
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 349
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 350
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 351
1894 - 1952
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 352
1783 - 1850
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 353
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 354
1711 - 1753
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 355
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 356
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 357
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.
1847 - 1888
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 22
1847 - 1912
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 23
1847 - 1876
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 24
1847 - 1921
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 25
1847 - 1938
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 26
1847 - 1893
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 27
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 28
1847 - 1920
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 29
1847 - 1871
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 30
1847 - 1921
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 31
1847 - 1923
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 32
1847 - 1921
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 33
1847 - 1927
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 34
1863 - 1897
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 18
1824 - 1897
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 19
1822 - 1897
HPI: 57.67
Rank: 20
1828 - 1897
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 21
1815 - 1897
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 22
1810 - 1897
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 23
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 24
1830 - 1897
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 25
1848 - 1897
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 26
1832 - 1897
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 27
1844 - 1897
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 28
1861 - 1897
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 29
1831 - 1897
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 30
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).
1409 - 1485
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 1,800
1912 - 1979
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 1,801
1902 - 1989
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 1,802
1775 - 1832
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 1,803
1629 - 1665
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 1,804
1920 - 2012
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 1,805
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 1,806
500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 1,807
180 BC - 113 BC
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 1,808
1797 - 1865
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 1,809
1958 - 1986
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 1,810
1876 - 1972
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 1,811
140 BC - 91 BC
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 1,812
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).
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
1942 - Present
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 15
1811 - 1868
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 16
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 17
1786 - 1863
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 18
1905 - 1993
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 19