BIOLOGIST

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

1922 - 2018

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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (pronounced [luˈiːdʒi ˈluːka kaˈvalli ˈsfɔrtsa]; 25 January 1922 – 31 August 2018) was an Italian geneticist. He was a population geneticist who taught at the University of Parma, the University of Pavia and then at Stanford University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is the 299th most popular biologist (down from 270th in 2019), the 1,908th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,016th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 299 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean Cabanis, Armen Takhtajan, Juliane Koepcke, Peter Medawar, George Bentham, and Wilbur Scoville. After him are Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Jacob Georg Agardh, Takenoshin Nakai, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Edward Turner Bennett, and Jacob Christian Schäffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 119. Before him are Charles Mingus, Fikret Amirov, Pierre Hadot, Miloš Jakeš, Ferenc Deák, and Sōsuke Uno. After him are Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Yuri Averbakh, John Christopher, Günter Behnisch, Juan Antonio Bardem, and Jonas Mekas. Among people deceased in 2018, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 109. Before him are Kira Muratova, Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Ermanno Olmi, Big Van Vader, Margot Kidder, and Belisario Betancur. After him are Raymond Chow, Nancy Roman, Paul Virilio, Robert Faurisson, Jozef Adamec, and Joseph Kobzon.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 1,908 out of 5,161. Before him are Andrea Sansovino (1467), Michele Sanmicheli (1484), Giovanni Mocenigo (1409), Ippolito d'Este (1479), Nino Castelnuovo (1936), and Ludovico Ludovisi (1595). After him are Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550), Galeazzo II Visconti (1320), Simon of Trent (1472), Giovannino Guareschi (1908), Fabio Cudicini (1935), and Antipope Theodoric (1100).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ranks 10. Before him are Salvador Luria (1912), Renato Dulbecco (1914), Mario Capecchi (1937), Giovanni Sartori (1924), Mikhail Tsvet (1872), and Odoardo Beccari (1843). After him are Carlo Allioni (1728), Giuseppe Acerbi (1773), Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845), Gaetano Savi (1769), Domenico Vandelli (1735), and Tommaso Salvadori (1835).

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