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Galileo Ferraris

1847 - 1897

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Galileo Ferraris (31 October 1847 – 7 February 1897) was an Italian university professor, physicist and electrical engineer, one of the pioneers of AC power system and inventor of the induction motor although he never patented his work. Many newspapers touted that his work on the induction motor and power transmission systems were some of the greatest inventions of all ages. He published an extensive and complete monograph on the experimental results obtained with open-circuit transformers of the type designed by the power engineers Lucien Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Galileo Ferraris is the 374th most popular physicist (down from 355th in 2019), the 1,782nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,697th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Galileo Ferraris ranks 374 out of 851. Before him are George F. R. Ellis, Wolfgang Ketterle, Karl Guthe Jansky, Jurij Vega, Vladimir Shukhov, and Franz Ernst Neumann. After him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Maurice de Broglie, Walter H. Schottky, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Friedrich Kohlrausch, and Federico Faggin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Galileo Ferraris ranks 28. Before him are Maria Pia of Savoy, Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Catherine Dolgorukov, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Nikolay Zhukovsky, and Camille Doncieux. After him are Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Robert Fuchs, Sidney Sonnino, Hans Gross, Afonso Pena, and Nakano Takeko. Among people deceased in 1897, Galileo Ferraris ranks 23. Before him are Sebastian Kneipp, Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier, Andrés Bonifacio, Prince William of Baden, and Giuseppina Strepponi. After him are Minna Canth, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Léon Boëllmann, Stanislas de Guaita, and Alexei Savrasov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Galileo Ferraris ranks 1,782 out of 5,161. Before him are Joseph Freinademetz (1852), Jacopo Sannazaro (1458), Francesco Solimena (1657), Serge Reggiani (1922), Lucius Aemilius Paullus (-300), and Mauro Piacenza (1944). After him are David Sassoli (1956), Infante Gabriel of Spain (1752), Tarcisio Burgnich (1939), Junio Valerio Borghese (1906), Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1652), and Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (1609).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Galileo Ferraris ranks 14. Before him are Ettore Majorana (1906), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), and Giorgio Parisi (1948). After him are Federico Faggin (1941), Bruno Rossi (1905), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), Carlo Rovelli (1956), and Macedonio Melloni (1798).

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