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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 254,737 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Riccardo Morandi is the 144th most popular engineer (down from 121st in 2019), the 2,250th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,975th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Riccardo Morandi ranks 144 out of 323. Before him are Alexey Sudayev, Georgy Shpagin, Eugene Stoner, Alexei Tupolev, Mikhail Yangel, and Philippe LeBon. After him are Gabriel Voisin, Li Kui, Kerim Kerimov, Jorge Chávez, Mstislav Keldysh, and Hellmuth Walter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Riccardo Morandi ranks 121. Before him are Josep Lluís Sert, Karl Menger, Jean Bruller, Tallulah Bankhead, Samuel Goudsmit, and Vladimír Clementis. After him are Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Peng Zhen, Gustav Fröhlich, Eric Liddell, Mortimer J. Adler, and Princess Françoise of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1989, Riccardo Morandi ranks 105. Before him are André Cayatte, Mel Blanc, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Ahmed Abdallah, Arnaldo Ochoa, and Gerhard Schröder. After him are Uichiro Hatta, Diana Vreeland, Richie Ginther, Michał Rola-Żymierski, Joe Spinell, and René Moawad.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Riccardo Morandi ranks 2,250 out of 4,668. Before him are Luigi Longo (1900), Maria Anna of Savoy, Duchess of Chablais (1757), Domenico I Contarini (950), Filippo Pacini (1812), Nino Ferrer (1934), and Edoardo Mangiarotti (1919). After him are Federico Faggin (1941), Gaetano Pugnani (1731), Lucia Anguissola (1536), Aleksandër Moisiu (1879), Archduke Karl of Austria-Este (1785), and Roberto Bettega (1950).

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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), Gioacchino Colombo (1903), Enrico Forlanini (1848), Guenther Steiner (1965), and Aldo Costa (1961).

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