Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pier Luigi Luisi


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The result was keep. John254 00:08, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Pier Luigi Luisi

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Notability? Nergaal (talk) 03:02, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 14:02, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 17:38, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment The article is remarkably bad, but notability is hard to assess. The front matter for his recent Cambridge press book says he has authored over 300 articles (http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/21179/frontmatter/9780521821179_frontmatter.pdf) Google scholar turns up several works that have 60-100 citations; I don't know how much that is relative to his field. Crieff (talk) 18:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Oy vey, is the article bad! But at least to some extent, there appears to be coverage of the individual's work. I can't read much of it because it's not in English; maybe someone can. --N Shar (talk · contribs) 23:34, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Agreed that the article is very poorly written. Seems to be a translation of a poorly written Italian article.  In additions to the citations by Crieff and N Shar, Prof. Luisi has a recent textbook "The Emergence of Life. From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology" that appears to be used globally.  He is a Professor Emeritus from ETH Zurich (a.k.a. the "Swiss Federal Institute of Technology"), and is now head of a significant research institute at the Roma Tre university.  He also seems to have founded an ongoing  symposium that seems to be something like the Gordon Conferences, called the "The Week of Cortona".  Digging further into his Curriculum vitae, it seems he was chair of the "Institute of Polymers" at the ETH Zurich and founder of an organization called "Swiss Group Colloid Sceince."  All and all Prof. Luisi seems to have a quite notable career in European academia. At some later date I will try to improve his article (unless someone beats me to it B-)  )  WVhybrid (talk) 00:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I added a short paragraph to this article that asserts notability, and have included references.WVhybrid (talk) 04:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. WebOfScience shows a substantial number of his older articles that are highly cited. E.g. an article from 1988 called "REVERSE MICELLES AS HOSTS FOR PROTEINS AND SMALL MOLECULES" with 629 citations in WoS, an article from 1986 called "SOLUBILIZATION OF ENZYMES AND NUCLEIC-ACIDS IN HYDROCARBON MICELLAR SOLUTIONS" with 479 citations in WoS, an article from 1985 called "ENZYMES HOSTED IN REVERSE MICELLES IN HYDROCARBON SOLUTION" with 391 citations in WoS, an acticle " MICELLAR SOLUBILIZATION OF BIO-POLYMERS IN ORGANIC-SOLVENTS..." from 1981 with 249 WoS citations, plus quite a few others in a 100+ citations range. Passes WP:PROF as the author of highly cited scholarly works. Nsk92 (talk) 04:01, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per WVhybrid and Nsk92 Crieff (talk) 12:14, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


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