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Scipione Riva-Rocci

1863 - 1937

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Scipione Riva Rocci (7 August 1863 in Almese, Piedmont – 15 March 1937 in Rapallo, Liguria) was an Italian internist, pathologist and pediatrician. He is best known for the invention of an easy-to-use cuff-based version of the mercury sphygmomanometer for the measurement of blood pressure. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Scipione Riva-Rocci is the 428th most popular physician (down from 413th in 2019). (up from 2,534th in 2019)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Scipione Riva-Rocci ranks 428 out of 726. Before him are Nicolae Paulescu, Andrew Yao, Bernard de Jussieu, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Andrew Taylor Still, and Wilhelm Kühne. After him are Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Shinobu Ishihara, Adelaida Avagyan, Theodor Meynert, Zilda Arns, and Hilary Koprowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Scipione Riva-Rocci ranks 82. Before him are Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Richard Dehmel, Francisco León de la Barra, Klara Zamenhof, Vladimir Obruchev, and Hans Aanrud. After him are Princess Isabella of Bavaria, Augusto B. Leguía, Ioannis Frangoudis, Francis Younghusband, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, and Géza Gárdonyi. Among people deceased in 1937, Scipione Riva-Rocci ranks 96. Before him are Otto Hölder, Ieronim Uborevich, Adolf Erman, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Rafael de Nogales Méndez, and Muslim Magomayev. After him are Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Les Kurbas, Renate Müller, Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, Ahmad Javad, and Camillo Berneri.

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