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 46,039 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Amici is the 434th most popular physicist (up from 436th in 2019), the 2,306th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,342nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 434 out of 851. Before him are Karl Guthe Jansky, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Philip Morrison, Douglas Hofstadter, Mildred Dresselhaus, and Bruno Rossi. After him are Hendrik Casimir, Anatoli Bugorski, Vladimir Fock, Charles Galton Darwin, George Volkoff, and Robert W. Wood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 26. Before him are François-Édouard Picot, William George Horner, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Gaspar del Bufalo, and Winfield Scott. After him are Nicolás Bravo, Joachim Lelewel, Justinus Kerner, Marc Seguin, Agustina de Aragón, and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet. Among people deceased in 1863, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 22. Before him are Auguste Bravais, Radama II, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Dost Mohammad Khan, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, and Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este. After him are Mangas Coloradas, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, Robert Gould Shaw, Kamehameha IV, Peter Andreas Munch, and C. L. Gloger.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 2,306 out of 5,161. Before him are Roberto Assagioli (1888), Paul-Émile Botta (1802), Albert Anastasia (1902), Gaspard Dughet (1613), Luciana Paluzzi (1937), and Mauro Bolognini (1922). After him are Lanfranc (1005), Aristodemus of Cumae (-550), Masaniello (1620), Matteo Renzi (1975), Mauro Piacenza (1944), and Nicola Salvi (1697).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Amici ranks 18. Before him are Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Galileo Ferraris (1847), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Fabiola Gianotti (1960), Federico Faggin (1941), and Bruno Rossi (1905). After him are Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Giovanni Aldini (1762), Carlo Rovelli (1956), Richard Mollier (1863), Giovanni Poleni (1683), and Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716).

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