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Giovanni Giorgi

1871 - 1950

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Giovanni Giorgi (November 27, 1871 – August 19, 1950) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer who proposed the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System of Units (SI). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Giorgi has received more than 65,838 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Giorgi is the 591st most popular physicist (down from 540th in 2019), the 3,225th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,774th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Giovanni Giorgi ranks 591 out of 717Before her are Ted Fujita, Bill Nye, John D. Barrow, John Robison, Willem Hendrik Keesom, and Georges-Louis Le Sage. After her are Henry Augustus Rowland, John Lennard-Jones, Alvin M. Weinberg, Joan Feynman, Michael Fisher, and Lawrence M. Krauss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Giovanni Giorgi ranks 111Before her are Nils Edén, Fritz Schaudinn, Henryk Arctowski, Frank Schlesinger, Nicholas Adontz, and Jacob Ellehammer. After her are Vatslav Vorovsky, Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, Jan Kotěra, Stijn Streuvels, Dun Karm Psaila, and Florence R. Sabin. Among people deceased in 1950, Giovanni Giorgi ranks 128Before her are Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Lothrop Stoddard, Ivan Shmelyov, Albert Ehrenstein, Alexander Tairov, and Frederic Lewy. After her are Charles Gmelin, Frederick Twort, José Berraondo, Maurice Costello, Luise Fleck, and Ransom E. Olds.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Giorgi ranks 3,225 out of 4,668Before her are Piero Carini (1921), Gabriele Tarquini (1962), Franca Viola (1948), Gaetano Bedini (1806), Consalvo Sanesi (1911), and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (1968). After her are Stefano Benni (1947), Camillo Caccia Dominioni (1877), Massimiliano Fuksas (1944), Polydore Vergil (1470), Carlo Ceresoli (1910), and Debora Caprioglio (1968).

Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Giovanni Giorgi ranks 31Before her are Macedonio Melloni (1798), Carlo Rovelli (1956), Augusto Righi (1850), Antonio Pacinotti (1841), Giuseppe Occhialini (1907), and Fabiola Gianotti (1960). After her are Franco Rasetti (1901), Tullio Regge (1931), Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), Bruno Zumino (1923), and Gian Francesco Giudice (1961).