GEOLOGIST

Giuseppe Mercalli

1850 - 1914

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Giuseppe Mercalli (21 May 1850 – 19 March 1914) was an Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Mercalli has received more than 110,966 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Mercalli is the 20th most popular geologist, the 1,838th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,745th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Geologist.

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  • 110k

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  • 57.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Giuseppe Mercalli ranks 20 out of 90. Before him are Abraham Gottlob Werner, William Smith, Beno Gutenberg, Christian Leopold von Buch, Ignacy Domeyko, and Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu. After him are Gideon Mantell, Jean-André Deluc, William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, John Tuzo Wilson, and Vladimir Obruchev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Giuseppe Mercalli ranks 35. Before him are Ivan Vazov, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, Pat Garrett, Jack Daniel, Ebenezer Howard, and Pavel Axelrod. After him are Zdeněk Fibich, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, Alexander von Linsingen, and John Collier. Among people deceased in 1914, Giuseppe Mercalli ranks 38. Before him are Anatoly Lyadov, Jurji Zaydan, Christian Morgenstern, Theodor Kittelsen, Theodor Lipps, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf. After him are Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Julio Argentino Roca, Angelo Moriondo, Ivan Zajc, John Henry Poynting, and Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Mercalli ranks 1,838 out of 5,161. Before him are Ercole Consalvi (1757), Tiridates III of Parthia (-50), Tavo Burat (1932), Benvenuto Tisi (1481), Alessandro Altobelli (1955), and Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers (1539). After him are Laura Mancini (1636), Gustavo Marzi (1908), Giorgio Chinaglia (1947), Piero del Pollaiolo (1443), Gioachino Greco (1590), and Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Italy

Among geologists born in Italy, Giuseppe Mercalli ranks 1. After him are Luigi Palmieri (1807).

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