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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

1723 - 1788

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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and naturalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Antonio Scopoli has received more than 128,981 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Antonio Scopoli is the 135th most popular physician (down from 134th in 2019), the 1,028th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,058th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Physician.

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli is most famous for his work in the field of zoology. He was born in Italy and became a professor of natural history at the University of Padua in 1772. He is most known for his work on the flora and fauna of the Alps.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli ranks 135 out of 726. Before him are John Snow, Edgar Adrian, Oswald Avery, George Emil Palade, Herta Oberheuser, and Peter Damian. After him are Sushruta, Ibn Zuhr, Carl Wernicke, Albrecht von Haller, Marie François Xavier Bichat, and Theodor Billroth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli ranks 5. Before him are Adam Smith, Baron d'Holbach, Frederick V of Denmark, and Joshua Reynolds. After him are Carl Friedrich Abel, Adam Ferguson, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, and Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg. Among people deceased in 1788, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli ranks 9. Before him are Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Charles Edward Stuart, Thomas Gainsborough, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, and Johann Georg Hamann. After him are Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, José, Prince of Brazil, Infante Gabriel of Spain, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, and Toriyama Sekien.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli ranks 1,028 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Landini (1325), Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans (1371), Marcomer (400), Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (1668), Maurizio Pollini (1942), and Amélie of Leuchtenberg (1812). After him are Cosimo Tura (1430), Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1634), Milonia Caesonia (7), Bartolommeo Bandinelli (1488), Tina Modotti (1896), and Mirella Freni (1935).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Italy

Among physicians born in Italy, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli ranks 9. Before him are Camillo Golgi (1843), Marcello Malpighi (1628), Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Francesco Redi (1626), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), and Peter Damian (1007). After him are Bernardino of Siena (1380), Trota of Salerno (1001), Andrea Cesalpino (1519), Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682), Bernardino Ramazzini (1633), and Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501).

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