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Macedonio Melloni

1798 - 1854

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Macedonio Melloni (11 April 1798 – 11 August 1854) was an Italian physicist, notable for demonstrating that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Macedonio Melloni has received more than 34,971 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Macedonio Melloni is the 535th most popular physicist (down from 512th in 2019), the 2,995th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,821st in 2019) and the 27th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Macedonio Melloni ranks 535 out of 851. Before him are Boris Rosing, Samuel T. Cohen, Edward Condon, Bryce DeWitt, Eric Allin Cornell, and Vladimir Steklov. After him are Leonid Mandelstam, Knut Ångström, Dmitri Ivanenko, Abraham Alikhanov, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, and John Sealy Townsend.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Macedonio Melloni ranks 30. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Charles Wilkes, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, Willibald Alexis, and Carl Blechen. After him are Alexei Lvov, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Anton Delvig, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig. Among people deceased in 1854, Macedonio Melloni ranks 36. Before him are Simón Rodríguez, Maria Wirtemberska, Henriette Sontag, José Joaquín de Herrera, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, and Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel. After him are Józef Chłopicki, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, José Joaquín Prieto, and Jean Coralli.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Macedonio Melloni ranks 2,995 out of 5,161. Before him are Dante Ferretti (1943), Giuseppe Parini (1729), Amedeo Biavati (1915), Giancarlo Minardi (1947), Arator (500), and Gabriele Oriali (1952). After him are Luigi Poggi (1917), Hugh, Margrave of Tuscany (950), Steno (1917), Adalbert I, Margrave of Tuscany (820), Giovanna Ralli (1935), and Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Macedonio Melloni ranks 27. Before him are Carlo Rovelli (1956), Richard Mollier (1863), Giovanni Poleni (1683), Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), and Nicola Cabibbo (1935). After him are Augusto Righi (1850), Antonio Pacinotti (1841), Giuseppe Occhialini (1907), Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), Franco Rasetti (1901), and Bruno Zumino (1923).

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