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Giovanni Battista Grassi

1854 - 1925

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Giovanni Battista Grassi (27 March 1854 – 4 May 1925) was an Italian physician and zoologist, best known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the University of Catania from 1883, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Sapienza University of Rome from 1895 until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Battista Grassi has received more than 60,596 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Grassi is the 447th most popular physician (up from 456th in 2019).

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Giovanni Battista Grassi ranks 447 out of 726. Before him are Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Diocles of Carystus, Peter C. Doherty, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Bernard de Jussieu, and William Hunter. After him are Eva Klein, Constantin von Economo, Harry Seeley, Crawford Long, Frances Oldham Kelsey, and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Giovanni Battista Grassi ranks 74. Before him are José Canalejas, Petros Protopapadakis, Hermann von Struve, Franz Rohr von Denta, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, and Maria Zankovetska. After him are Sergei Shchukin, Johan Turi, Jenny Nyström, Jules Gilliéron, Cornelis Lely, and Yehuda Pen. Among people deceased in 1925, Giovanni Battista Grassi ranks 94. Before him are Magnus Enckell, Leo Fall, Fanny Bullock Workman, Carl Neumann, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, and Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner. After him are J. M. E. McTaggart, Alfred Perot, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, George Bellows, and Anna Kuliscioff.

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