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Evangelista Torricelli

1608 - 1647

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Evangelista Torricelli ( TORR-ee-CHEL-ee; Italian: [evandʒeˈlista torriˈtʃɛlli] ; 15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. The torr is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Evangelista Torricelli is the 15th most popular physicist (up from 17th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Italy (down from 47th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Physicist.

Torricelli is most famous for his invention of the barometer.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 15 out of 851Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Albert A. Michelson, Pierre Curie, and André-Marie Ampère. After him are Erwin Schrödinger, Henri Becquerel, J. J. Thomson, James Prescott Joule, Ernest Rutherford, and Edward Victor Appleton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1608, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 1After him are John Milton, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Tukaram, Ivan Vyhovsky, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, António Vieira, Eudoxia Streshneva, and Pieter Post. Among people deceased in 1647, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 1After him are Bonaventura Cavalieri, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Peter Mogila, Giovanni Lanfranco, Matthias Gallas, Zhang Xianzhong, Sebastiaen Vrancx, Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Masaniello, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, and Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 66 out of 5,161Before him are Pope Julius II (1443), Parmenides (-501), Pope Gregory XIII (1502), Niccolò Paganini (1782), Pope Leo XI (1535), and Pope Pius VII (1742). After him are Pope Leo X (1475), Silvio Berlusconi (1936), Pope Leo XII (1760), Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), Lorenzo de' Medici (1449), and Titus (41).

Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Evangelista Torricelli ranks 2Before him are Alessandro Volta (1745). After him are Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Emilio Segrè (1905), Laura Bassi (1711), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).