PSYCHOLOGIST

Giacomo Rizzolatti

1937 - Today

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Giacomo Rizzolatti (born 28 April 1937) is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma. Born in Kyiv, UkSSR, he is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons in the frontal and parietal cortex of the macaque monkey, and has written many scientific articles on the topic. He also proposed the premotor theory of attention. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giacomo Rizzolatti has received more than 103,350 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Giacomo Rizzolatti is the 168th most popular psychologist (down from 165th in 2019), the 452nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 412th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Giacomo Rizzolatti ranks 168 out of 235. Before him are Arnold Gesell, Endel Tulving, Charlotte Bühler, Edgar Rubin, Nise da Silveira, and Stanley Schachter. After him are Benjamin Libet, Emma Eckstein, Edgar Schein, Dimitri Uznadze, James Hillman, and Brenda Milner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Giacomo Rizzolatti ranks 231. Before him are Yuri Manin, Eduard Artemyev, Giovanni Arrighi, Cēzars Ozers, Wanda Jackson, and Ada Rogovtseva. After him are Lois Lowry, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Mehdi Karroubi, Edita Piekha, David Mumford, and Keiko Abe.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Giacomo Rizzolatti ranks 452 out of 1,365. Before him are Yury Olesha (1899), Emil Paur (1855), Isaak Dunayevsky (1900), Arkady Luxemburg (1939), Yury Vlasov (1935), and Nikolay Nosov (1908). After him are Grigory Chukhray (1921), Viktor Vekselberg (1957), Vlas Chubar (1881), Petro Symonenko (1952), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), and Sydir Kovpak (1887).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among psychologists born in Ukraine, Giacomo Rizzolatti ranks 2. Before him are Wilhelm Reich (1897). After him are Anatol Rapoport (1911).

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