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Filippo Pacini

1812 - 1883

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Filippo Pacini (25 May 1812 – 9 July 1883) was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries 30 years later. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Filippo Pacini is the 387th most popular physician (down from 336th in 2019), the 2,521st most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,357th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Filippo Pacini ranks 387 out of 726. Before him are Vera Weizmann, Eugene Botkin, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Carlos Chagas, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, and Willi Graf. After him are Frances Oldham Kelsey, Luigi Carlo Farini, Moritz Kaposi, Robert Liston, Paul Hermann, and Emil Aarestrup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Filippo Pacini ranks 36. Before him are Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Édouard Séguin, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Berthold Auerbach, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, and Hermann von Fehling. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Luigi Carlo Farini, George Allman, William Fox, Knud Knudsen, and Ignacio Comonfort. Among people deceased in 1883, Filippo Pacini ranks 41. Before him are Juliette Drouet, Iwakura Tomomi, Cyprian Norwid, Gustave Aimard, Robert Volkmann, and Carl Wilhelm Siemens. After him are Oswald Heer, Napoleon Orda, Reinhart Dozy, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Ciprian Porumbescu, and Heinrich von Ferstel.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Filippo Pacini ranks 2,521 out of 5,161. Before him are Jannik Sinner (2001), Luigi Cremona (1830), Gaétan Vestris (1729), Carlo Lizzani (1922), Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat (1609), and Quintus Caecilius Metellus (-300). After him are Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze (1343), Galeria Fundana (null), Sergio Sebastiani (1931), Pierino Prati (1946), Giovanni Arrighi (1937), and Agnes Pockels (1862).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Italy

Among physicians born in Italy, Filippo Pacini ranks 24. Before him are Ennio Antonelli (1936), Saint Fabiola (400), Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666), Alessandro Achillini (1463), Prospero Alpini (1553), and Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (1883). After him are Luigi Carlo Farini (1812), Abella (1400), Realdo Colombo (1516), Giorgio Biandrata (1515), Antonio Bertoloni (1775), and Dorotea Bucca (1360).

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