# Primo Levi

> He survived Auschwitz, became a chemist, then wrote what may be the most precise account of the camps ever set down - a testimony that refuses both rage and self-pity, built instead from the clinical eye of a scientist watching his own extinction.

*Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919-1987)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/primo-levi

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1919-07-31
- **Died:** 1987-04-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Primo Michele Levi was born 31 July 1919 in Italy, trained as a chemist, and joined the partisans during the war. Captured and deported to Auschwitz, he spent a year as a prisoner in Nazi-occupied Poland. He returned and in 1947 published "If This Is a Man" (released in the United States as "Survival in Auschwitz"), his account of that year. In 1975 he published "The Periodic Table", a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories each named after a chemical element that plays a role in the narrative; the Royal Institution later named it the best science book ever written. On 11 April 1987, Levi died from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-storey apartment landing - officially ruled a suicide, though some who knew him dispute that and call it an accident.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 65.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.1 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 25.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 24.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505485/ (@nm0505485)

## Topics
#Writers, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #Poetry, #Politics, #Literature, #Fiction, #Stand Up

## Timeline
- **1997** - Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
- **1987** - Died
- **1982** - Viareggio Prize
- **1979** - Strega Prize
- **1967** - Bagutta Prize
- **1963** - Premio Campiello
- **1919** - Born

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