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Alexander VII

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Alexander VII

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Also known as Pope Alexander VII, Philomathus, papa Alessandro‏ ‎VII, pape Alexandre VII, Alexander VII. Papst

pope of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667

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Pope Alexander VII was born in 1599 and died in 1667. His work period spanned from 1620 to 1667. He is recognized in the Popes collection.

His notable works include *Philomathi Musæ juveniles*, *Decret de N.S.P. le pape Alexandre VII*, *Decret de l'inqvisition de Rome*, *Constitvtion de N. S. Pere le Pape Alexandre VII, du 16. Octobre 1657*, and *Nouveau bref de N.S. Pere le Pape Alexandre VII*. Sources indicate a works count of 5 or 14. He is referenced by 991 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1599
Died
1667
Works
14

Top works

  • Philomathi Musæ juveniles
  • Decret de N.S.P. le pape Alexandre VII
  • Decret de l'inqvisition de Rome
  • Constitvtion de N. S. Pere le Pape Alexandre VII, du 16. Octobre 1657
  • Nouveau bref de N.S. Pere le Pape Alexandre VII

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5 total works indexed

  1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,043x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,586x

  3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

    · 2015 · cited 30,528x

  4. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,588x

  5. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    · 2009 · cited 22,967x

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Encyclopedic overview

Pope Alexander VII (Italian: Alessandro VII; 13 February 1599 – 22 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death, in May 1667.

He began his career as a vice-papal legate, and he held various diplomatic positions in the Holy See. He was ordained as a priest in 1634, and he became bishop of Nardo in 1635. He was later transferred in 1652, and he became bishop of Imola. Pope Innocent X made him secretary of state in 1651 and, in 1652, he was appointed a cardinal.

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