BIOLOGIST

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

1922 - 2018

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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (pronounced [luˈiːdʒi ˈluːka kaˈvalli ˈsfɔrtsa]; 25 January 1922 – 31 August 2018) was an Italian geneticist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza has received more than 208,930 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is the 270th most popular biologist (down from 192nd in 2019), the 2,016th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,643rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 270 out of 1,097. Before him are Henrietta Lacks, Erik Pontoppidan, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Eric F. Wieschaus, Francis Darwin, and David Julius. After him are Christen C. Raunkiær, Peter Forsskål, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Jérôme Lejeune, Jack W. Szostak, and John Maynard Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 134. Before him are Taro Kagawa, Yuri Averbakh, Ivry Gitlis, Luis Somoza Debayle, Gershon Kingsley, and Cyd Charisse. After him are András Hegedüs, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Russ Meyer, Dana Zátopková, Vasili Mitrokhin, and Elissa Aalto. Among people deceased in 2018, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 107. Before him are Alan Baker, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Paul Andreu, Nicanor Parra, Bruno Sammartino, and Dennis Nilsen. After him are Raymond Chow, Josep Lluís Núñez, Irena Szewińska, Choi Eun-hee, Tom Wolfe, and Philip Kerr.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 2,016 out of 5,161. Before him are Antonio Cabrini (1957), Pietro Nardini (1722), Aurelio De Laurentiis (1949), Sidney Sonnino (1847), Sergio Pininfarina (1926), and Nedo Nadi (1894). After him are Agostino Tassi (1578), Ennio Antonelli (1936), Théodolinde de Beauharnais (1814), Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano (1690), Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1440), and Ludovico Ludovisi (1595).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 10. Before him are Giovanni Sartori (1924), Mario Capecchi (1937), Salvador Luria (1912), Renato Dulbecco (1914), Giuseppe Acerbi (1773), and Mikhail Tsvet (1872). After him are Carlo Allioni (1728), Odoardo Beccari (1843), Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845), Tommaso Salvadori (1835), Carlo Luigi Spegazzini (1858), and Michele Tenore (1780).

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