ENGINEER

Riccardo Morandi

1902 - 1989

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Riccardo Morandi (1 September 1902 – 25 December 1989) was an Italian civil engineer best known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete, although over the years some of his particular cable-stayed bridges have had some maintenance trouble. Amongst his best-known works are the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, an 8 km (5 mi) cable-stayed bridge crossing Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela; a similar bridge in Genoa commonly known as Ponte Morandi (officially Viadotto Polcevera), which partially collapsed in 2018 for reasons under investigation; and the Subterranean Automobile Showroom in Turin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Riccardo Morandi has received more than 261,371 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Riccardo Morandi is the 170th most popular engineer (down from 142nd in 2019), the 2,595th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,245th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Engineer.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Riccardo Morandi ranks 170 out of 389. Before him are Antoine de Chézy, Sherif Ismail, Vitaly Abalakov, Menno van Coehoorn, John Hughes, and Alexander Mozhaysky. After him are Pierre-Paul Riquet, Louis Charles Breguet, Hellmuth Walter, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Nikolay Kamov, and Vasily Mishin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Riccardo Morandi ranks 138. Before him are Oscar Cullmann, Ryu Gwansun, Józef Maria Bocheński, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, John Houseman, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. After him are Bobby Jones, Luis Cernuda, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Anthony Asquith, Nikolay Kamov, and K. Shivaram Karanth. Among people deceased in 1989, Riccardo Morandi ranks 116. Before him are Harry Andrews, Richie Ginther, Yūsaku Matsuda, Gerhard Schröder, Arnaldo Ochoa, and Michał Rola-Żymierski. After him are Joe Spinell, Mouloud Mammeri, Guy Laroche, Martti Talvela, Robert Penn Warren, and Chen Boda.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Riccardo Morandi ranks 2,595 out of 5,161. Before him are Agnello Participazio (800), Giovanni Battista Crespi (1573), Goffredo Petrassi (1904), Guido Guinizelli (1230), Milena Vukotic (1935), and Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716). After him are Ferdinando Galiani (1728), Pietro Grimani (1677), Luigi Denza (1846), Benedetto Cairoli (1825), Alessandro Albani (1692), and Titus Flavius Sabinus (8).

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Among ENGINEERS In Italy

Among engineers born in Italy, Riccardo Morandi ranks 5. Before him are Umberto Nobile (1885), Marcello Gandini (1938), Nicola Romeo (1876), and Flaminio Bertoni (1903). After him are Giuseppe Colombo (1920), Enrico Forlanini (1848), Gioacchino Colombo (1903), Guenther Steiner (1965), and Aldo Costa (1961).

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