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Macedonio Melloni

1798 - 1854

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Macedonio Melloni (11 April 1798 – 11 August 1854) was an Italian physicist, notable for demonstrating that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Macedonio Melloni is the 487th most popular physicist (up from 536th in 2019), the 2,623rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,995th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Macedonio Melloni ranks 487 out of 851. Before him are Jacques Babinet, Max Abraham, Martin Knudsen, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Johann Heinrich Schulze, and Robert Brout. After him are Theodore Hall, Jayant Narlikar, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Christian Mayer, Toshiko Yuasa, and Meghnad Saha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Macedonio Melloni ranks 29. Before him are Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Andries Pretorius, Massimo d'Azeglio, Thomas Henderson, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, and Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. After him are Charles Wilkes, Abigail Fillmore, Alexei Lvov, Carl Blechen, Paolo Savi, and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont. Among people deceased in 1854, Macedonio Melloni ranks 27. Before him are Nicolás Bravo, Arthur Aikin, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Émilie de Villeneuve, and Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel. After him are Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Vatroslav Lisinski, Silvio Pellico, Maria Wirtemberska, Joseph de Villèle, and José Joaquín de Herrera.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Macedonio Melloni ranks 2,623 out of 5,161. Before him are Simone Boccanegra (1301), Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì (1839), Luigi Denza (1846), Apostolo Zeno (1668), Enrico Dante (1884), and Agnello Participazio (800). After him are Gasparo Contarini (1483), Francesco Zuccarelli (1702), Sigismondo d'India (1582), Lorenzo Lippi (1606), Bernardo Buontalenti (1531), and Pietro Lando (1462).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Macedonio Melloni ranks 20. Before him are Galileo Ferraris (1847), Federico Faggin (1941), Bruno Rossi (1905), Carlo Matteucci (1811), Gabriele Veneziano (1942), and Carlo Rovelli (1956). After him are Augusto Righi (1850), Giovanni Aldini (1762), Nicola Cabibbo (1935), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), Giovanni Poleni (1683), and Fabiola Gianotti (1960).

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