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PHYSICIST

Giovanni Battista Amici

1786 - 1863

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Giovanni Battista Amici (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista aˈmiːtʃi]; 25 March 1786 – 10 April 1863) was an Italian astronomer, microscopist, and botanist. Amici was born in Modena, in present-day Italy. After studying at Bologna, he became professor of mathematics at Modena, and in 1831 was appointed inspector-general of studies in the Duchy of Modena. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Battista Amici has received more than 42,330 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Amici is the 436th most popular physicist (up from 442nd in 2019), the 2,347th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,307th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 436 out of 717Before him are Sameera Moussa, Marie Alfred Cornu, John Dollond, Gene Amdahl, Gaspard de Prony, and Saul Perlmutter. After him are Emil Wiechert, Bruno Rossi, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Eugen Goldstein, Richard Mollier, and G. M. B. Dobson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 32Before him are Winfield Scott, Justinus Kerner, Gregor MacGregor, Albrecht Adam, Nicolás Bravo, and Agustina de Aragón. After him are Marc Seguin, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Joachim Lelewel, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Sergey Uvarov. Among people deceased in 1863, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 26Before him are Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, Mangas Coloradas, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Auguste Bravais, Peter Andreas Munch, and Kamehameha IV. After him are Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Robert Gould Shaw, Edward Robinson, Ignacio Comonfort, and August Beer.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 2,347 out of 4,668Before him are Philistus (-430), Masaniello (1620), Paolo Di Canio (1968), Carlo Rossi (1775), Guido Fubini (1879), and Lucrezia Barberini (1628). After him are Bartolomeo Montagna (1450), Isabella of Clermont (1424), Osvaldo Cavandoli (1920), Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa (1920), Federica Mogherini (1973), and Antipope Callixtus III (null).

Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 18Before him are Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Galileo Ferraris (1847), Giovanni Aldini (1762), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Carlo Matteucci (1811), and Federico Faggin (1941). After him are Bruno Rossi (1905), Richard Mollier (1863), Giovanni Poleni (1683), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), and Nicola Cabibbo (1935).