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Carlo Rovelli

1956 - Today

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Carlo Rovelli (born 3 May 1956) is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States, France, and Canada. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the Centre de Physique Theorique of Marseille in France, a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University in Canada, and Fractal Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute in The United States. Rovelli works mainly in the field of quantum gravity and is a founder of the theory of loop quantum gravity. He has also worked in the history and philosophy of science, formulating the relational quantum mechanics and the notion of thermal time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Rovelli is the 475th most popular physicist (up from 483rd in 2019), the 2,557th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,629th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carlo Rovelli ranks 475 out of 851. Before him are Mildred Dresselhaus, John Canton, John Houghton, Wilhelm Hisinger, Emil Wiechert, and Jules Antoine Lissajous. After him are Heinrich Barkhausen, Pyotr Lebedev, Andrei Linde, Marian Smoluchowski, Alan Sokal, and Jacques Babinet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Carlo Rovelli ranks 145. Before him are Pim Verbeek, Kazuyo Sejima, Kōji Yakusho, Franky Vercauteren, Edgar Lungu, and Mitsugu Nomura. After him are Alejandro Giammattei, José Luis Brown, Hans Enoksen, Jack Sherman, Johnny Cecotto, and Momir Bulatović.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Rovelli ranks 2,557 out of 5,161. Before him are George P. Cosmatos (1941), Carlo Saraceni (1579), Franco Maria Malfatti (1927), Caterina Boratto (1915), Maria Carta (1934), and Lawrence Justinian (1381). After him are Renato Castellani (1913), Giulietta Simionato (1910), Silvana Pampanini (1925), Anna Galiena (1954), Angelo Branduardi (1950), and Eleonora Rossi Drago (1925).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Carlo Rovelli ranks 19. Before him are Giorgio Parisi (1948), Galileo Ferraris (1847), Federico Faggin (1941), Bruno Rossi (1905), Carlo Matteucci (1811), and Gabriele Veneziano (1942). After him are Macedonio Melloni (1798), Augusto Righi (1850), Giovanni Aldini (1762), Nicola Cabibbo (1935), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), and Giovanni Poleni (1683).

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